Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Native Americans The Deep History of Presque Isle Text by: David Putnam In 1978, as a result of the proposal to construct the Aroostook Centre…"

Davistown Museum

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… was a source of food and materials for many Native Americans who used the island as a seasonal, and perhaps permanent, home."

Abbe Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… was especially practiced by the Ainu, Inuit, Native Americans and people of the Bay of Biscay. Rock carvings have shown several whales being…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The Native Americans of this tribe had for generations past roamed the wilds of this region from Merrymeeting Bay to Moosehead Lake in peace and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Edmund Muskie Those crazy Coke and Mentos guys Native Americans—in this case the Abenakis—flourished in the western foothills for millennia before…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… after John Neptune, Governor of the Penobscot Native American tribe. The steamboat was owned by the Penobscot Navigation Company."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"It is unclear when the Native Americans first came to the area they referred to as the “great intervale”."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Each workman furnished his own tools, all of which were sold at the store of William Coggins. The Civil War With an 1860 population of 1319 (the…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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