Maine Memory Network

Marsh Staddle, Scarborough, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Scarborough Media: Postcard

Sumner Kimball, Lovell, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Lovell Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Lovell Media: Photographic print

Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… period the average homestead consumed 20-30 cords of wood per year. If they had energy left they could attempt to clear and till five acres of land…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Pulp & Paper Mill, Lincoln, 1957 - Page 1 of 2

"… silos to the left can hold up to two hundred cords of wood chips. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down