Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"Click on the titles. The World Outside  2:43 Green Fields  3:41 He   3:03 He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands   2:56 Climb Ev’ry Mountain   2:50…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3

"Red and green check suit, ca. 1950Maine Historical Society Dior introduced his famous "New Look" in 1947, two looks in fact, one flared skirted, and…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2

"If you are coming from Sangerville, Parkman, or Abbot it is after the green bridge; it is on the left. The address is 9 Oak Street."

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900

"… designed to accomodate a bustle include a pale green damask edged with white rabbit fur for evening; and a velvet trimmed multicolored, striped…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"… in 1806, merchants and traders, including Ballard Green, Eli Merrill, John Paine, and Patrick Keegan continued to carry on extensive business in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 4 of 4

"… with short frill sleeves, boat neck, and a wide green waist sash, features a flat front skirt that spreads expansively to the rear."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"The green school remained a grammar school until it ceased February, 1966. Sometime in the 1970s it became the Fernwood Grange Hall."

Windham Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"This green space became known as Meeting House Park. (And now you know that Church Street is named for John Church and not the North Church at the…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"Frank Green at 176 Broad Street on the west side of the Kenduskeag Stream. It spread among the wooden warehouses along Bangor’s working waterfront."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"Green. The smoke rising from the buildings meant herring were being processed. In 1959 Arthur McCurdy, acquired the “stand,” as people termed the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… marsh, “a world of many different creatures as green crabs scurry among the shaded plant stalks, marsh wrens weave the grass blades into swaying…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… as they were called because they came in green, continued to be found on the walls of many classrooms for many years."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… from Cottage Street half way to the town green. By 1879 Bar Harbor had 30 hotels, a national reputation and telephone service linking four hotels…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Munsungan Lake and quarried high quality red, green, and gray chert (flint) which they used to make beautifully crafted “fluted” spear points."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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