Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"Washington B. Thomas The Washington B. Thomas was a five-masted schooner of a type called a fore-and-after."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… the age of 79, her residence at 382 Black Point Road was expanded and the Kaler Vaill Memorial Home for Women was opened in 1960."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Even though incorporated as a town in 1658, residents still identified themselves as being from Dunstan, Oak Hill, Pine Point or other neighborhood…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… provided Scarborough with frequent and convenient rail service to Portland, Old Orchard Beach and Saco following what is now Route 1.(1)…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"“Transforming the Garden of the Sea; The Individual Place in the Manipulation of the Scarborough Marsh.” Snow, John. Secrets of a Salt Marsh."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Chapman, Leonard B. Monograph on the Southgate Family of Scarborough, Maine. Portland, ME: Hubbard W. Bryant, 1907. Chase, Georgiana."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Passengers traveling south from Vanceboro or north from Bangor were halted at Lincoln and transported the rest of the way by bus and taxi."

Seashore Trolley Museum

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War Resources

"Small, Harold A. The Road to Richmond: the Civil War letters of Major Abner R. Small. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. Smith, Ned."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"And John B. Curtis is a distinguished business man in history because of his invention of chewing gum."

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Acadian Archives

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"It also had its own train station. You could travel from New Sweden to Woodland to Caribou to Presque Isle and return."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"When the rail line was abandoned and the tracks taken up, it removed the natural barrier surrounding the fair grounds."