Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"Rather, landownership was an argument: a case to be made before provincial officials, imperial authorities, Indigenous powers, and the colonial…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"… belonging to Maine alone.” The final primary argument was simply a lack of immediate motives. The author conceded that Mainers would be unhurt…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… account of the transition in oppositional arguments at this time, see Banks, Maine Becomes a State, 127-129."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… towns would be more favorable to their legal arguments. A full understanding of the course of Maine history before its 1820 statehood requires…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… portable saws and nail guns make a compelling argument to just tear down and haul off the older buildings when they near functional obsolescence…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… attributed to Samuel Ely, began with forceful arguments against Knox’s right to own the land, and ended with a vitriolic parody of how Henry Knox’s…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… French North America, and all the old hatreds and arguments crossed from the Old World into the New with vicious alacrity."

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"Of its many arguments, the paper maintained a district with a population of nearly 270,000 deserved an independent government."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… firm "no." For the school, it was the end of the argument, but George Stevens did not give up. In 1852 Stevens died, leaving written in his will a…"