Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's Agricultural Pursuits

"Clover seed wanted for which cash will be paid” (newspaper ad March 7, 1840). These ads are informative in the types of crops being sold and that the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales Buildings

"… on the corner of Jordan and Main Streets (now JP Cash Market). The dealership has been relocated several times throughout its lifetime."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 6 of 17

"They saw the opportunity for making fast cash off the high bidders. This further drove the two towns into financial crisis."

Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Poem

"… the library with a crash The old library needed cash Now with a hole in its side The library was opened wide In the library was a disaster I feel…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"… Presque Isle, Maine fifty years ago down where JP Cash Market is now located. Back then, Frank (Skippy), who owned Carroll’s Auto Sales, sold used…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… includes bound or once bound volumes of records, cash books, letterbooks and grants; loose papers, correspondence, accounts, claims and other…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… farmers and prompting the introduction of new cash crops. A return to cooler temperatures in the early 1830s and an increase in precipitation that…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… of cotton 1 barrel of lemons 6 loves of sugar 1 cash of vinegar 10 bundles 3 barrels 1 gallon of rum 6 pounds of butter 1 barrel of molasses 1…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… direct form the mills and to be sold very low for cash or exchange of produce. The wooden barrels in which it came became too expensive and hard to…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… and an annual salary of two hundred dollars in cash. In the words of a contemporary, Rufus G.F. Candage, "he lived upon it, reared a family, and…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"It was repaired and sold to Cash Clark and Clayton Atwood. Lester Henderson took charge of the novelty part which turned out candy sticks, heel stock…"

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"Cash Recanzone "Create a statement and prove or disprove it with evidence from your research" Statement: Nathaniel Bodwell was a great man and had a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"The cash deal, scheduled for completion by the end of that year, included 667,000 acres of related timberland."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"This was an unusual offer as most business men did not have that kind of cash available and the offer surprised Johnson."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"This forced them into a cash economy based around the European trading posts and ended the highly mobile way of life that had persisted since the Ice…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… farmers and prompting the introduction of new cash crops, including such exotic ones as silkworms."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Acadian Archives

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… of British manufactured goods were exchanged for cash, beef, pork, flour and wood products. The town entered a period of growth and prosperity and…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… would be given shares in the syndicate and cash for granting title and control to Seacoast. Often they would stay on as managers."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… & Emily Turner Memorial Library Farmers received cash for their crop, paid off their mortgages, improved their farm buildings and their homes and…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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