Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846

"Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Train Crossing the Aroostook River Bridge, Presque Isle, c. 1990

"Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Train Crossing the Aroostook River Bridge, Presque Isle, c. 1990 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"… Museum, Hallowell, 1998Hubbard Free Library Red Cross's involvement in the Ice Storm What part did the American Red Cross play in the ice storm…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms

"… with national organizations like the Red Cross. This image gallery offers examples from this small, yet hopefully growing, sub-sect of the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms

"… with national organizations like the Red Cross. This image gallery offers examples from this small, yet hopefully growing, sub-sect of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Wire, Ice, and Iron Industries

"1930Hubbard Free Library Milliken's Crossing, Looking north on Water Street, Hallowell, ca. 1933Hubbard Free Library They settled there…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"There’s a stream called Blunt’s Brook that crosses the road near where Ebenezer Blunt lived. Blunt’s Brook crosses the road just north of the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad Trestle, ca. 1910

"… photo shows the Aroostook Valley Railroad Trestle crossing the Aroostook River near Crouseville. An Electric trolley is on the trestle."

Historic Hallowell - The Fuller Foundry

"1933Hubbard Free Library In the 1850s, the company of Prescott & Fuller Iron Foundry was formed on Milliken’s Crossing, in Hallowell, Maine."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Maxie Anderson, Presque Isle, 1981

"… of his balloon Double Eagle II in which he crossed the Atlantic in 1978. This item is in copyright."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"He wrote, "I took my son Junior & crossed to Brewer & sketched her from the Brick Wharf oposite Steam Boat wharf."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gravenstein apple, Bangor, 1866

"… tree Duchese Anjeolene" and then he or someone crossed out the name and wrote "Gravenstein" over it and crossed that out as well."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Site Navigation Tips

"If a word is crossed out in the original, we try to discern what the word, letters, or words were, then present those with a line through them to…"

Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"… civil war nurse and founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton) and Benjamin Vaughan. Most wanted to become successful farmers as well as…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell

"Oh what a sight. With the red cross helping tonight Everyone wanted to help keep alive those who yelp. Loving and caring for those they don’t know."

Life on a Tidal River - Exhibits

"They are a varied cross-section of Bangor's history and lead the way to future projects. We hope you enjoy them! The sixth exhibit, The Great Bangor…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"The bridge that crosses over the river from Lincoln to Chester (like the Access Road bridge) is much larger and holds much more weight, such as big…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"Phebe was just 18. Sanford is buried in the Cross Road cemetery, next to Phebe’s parents. There is no record of Leila’s passing, other than the Surry…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Circus swing, Boston, 1853

"… this exercise a boy hung one leg over the lower cross piece at figure 2 and another jumped down from figure 1 and come astride of the boys leg at 2…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Harris House, Bangor, ca. 1850

"… at the "Bangor Olde Town & Millford Switch and crossing on Market Street." He drew the house as it looked before Samuel Veazie added a shed and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Cornet Band member, 1864

"… front of the cap a circle with two instruments crossed." The illustration of the band member is on page 25 of Martin's 1864 scrap and sketch book."

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"The Cross Center In 2013, the 1955 auditorium was officially replaced with the modern 65-million-dollar Cross Insurance Center that is now home to…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"… Society New Sweden has a long history of cross country skiing and is known as the birthplace of nordic skiing in America."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"X The last big change in crossing the Kennebec River happened in 2000 with the opening of the Sagadahoc Bridge, which was built to end the…"