Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Perry Opera House

"It was renamed the Perry Theatre, and had a sixty foot semicircular stage. In 1930, the building was purchased by Northern National Bank, and named…"

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"The number over sixty years of age, 9; the oldest is 84; the youngest 18; average age about 63. There have been no deaths, and the general health of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2

"Some farms had as few as a dozen cows, and some had as many as sixty. Even though there were many dairy farms then, now there are almost none."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 3 of 3

"… sleeveless and made of a fun lime green very 'sixties' daisy printed fabric. Bridesmaid dress, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"Dy doing this at sixty strokes per minute, they pumped water through a leather hose. The Cascade Hand Tub was nothing like the fire engines used…"

Fifth Maine Regiment Museum

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Kennebec Valley Community College Archive

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Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"The death toll was sixty-three: two lobstermen, fifty-six other seamen, and five deaths on the Turnpike."

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

"… in Waldoboro)” and “I will to my oldest son, sixty-seven thousand pounds to spend at gaming and carousing.” It took several years of negotiations…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"During a sixty-year period from 1880 to 1940, John Calvin Stevens designed or altered more than three hundred domestic, religious, public…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… StevensMaine Historical Society During his sixty years as an architect, John Calvin Stevens frequently used pen and ink and watercolor renderings…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… documents and actions feel to the last sixty to seventy years of State and Federal dealings with Tribes, and attempts at reconciliation, justice…"

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

"… for his invalid mother, it wasn’t until he was sixty-one that he married Stella Langford of Rochester, New Hampshire."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"One hundred “after divisions” were created and sixty-four people became owners. Cumberland Center, 1857 X Settlements grow into Town Villages…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… genius to direct. … Though probably in his sixties his step is as elastic and his movements as easy and responsive to music as those of a youth of…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"Class sizes, Burr remembered, were “sixty students to a room” in those days. The example of his parents and his educational background helped…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2

"… facility has accommodated many patients in the sixty-five years that the new complex was constructed. Paine Hospital, Bangor, ca. 1964St."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The Homestead could seat up to sixty people in its dining hall and communal meals were commonplace. The homestead offered its guests fresh produce…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"By the 1870s, sixty-five trains a day brought passengers and freight in and out of Portland, many through Scarborough."

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

"… brief life, for it was wrecked in June 1903 only sixty days after its launch at Watts Shipyard in Thomaston."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"They had a girl's glee club, boasting around sixty members, and a boy's glee club, with fifteen. Thespian students could participate in one-act…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"By the 1870s, sixty-five trains a day transported passengers and freight in and out of Portland and through Scarborough."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Over sixty years of steam service, two captains and three ships: the Vinalhaven, Governor Bodwell, and the North Haven, served the needs of Swan’s…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Mill Pond accommodated 240 accumulators of which sixty were pulled up each week. Thus each box was under water a month before its turn came to be…"