Maine Memory Network

Portland Breakwater and Lighthouse, 1962

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Charles Vaughan letter to Kennebec Proprietors, 1808

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1808-04-10 Location: Hallowell Media: Ink on paper
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469 Allen Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Helen Elizabeth Needham Style: Bungalow Use: Dwelling - Single family

125-127 Bancroft Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Knapp Price Style: National Folk Use: Bungalow

Mori residence, North Haven, 2016-2018

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2016–2018 Location: North Haven Client: Toshiko Mori Architect: LaBranche Land Surveys

Danielson residence, Northeast Harbor, 2013

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2013 Location: Mount Desert Client: Barbara S. Danielson Architect: Sage Collins Surveying, Inc.

The Shape of Maine

The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… Martha Ballard was an essential complement to the surveys and land sales documented in company records."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"John River Boundary survey, 1843-1844Maine Historical Society How the long-fixed line of 1842 was created can be examined in extraordinary detail…"

Importance of Insects in Maine
by Charlene Donahue

Doing Insect surveys with the Maine Entomological Society

Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw

Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass