Maine Memory Network

Old Berwick Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Significant Events

"… the nation it has played a significant part in the country's history and its impact has gone beyond the city's boundaries into the world arena."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry

"Maine was ranked third in the country in corn packing, behind Illinois and New York. The season lasted a mere three weeks."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 5 of 17

"… of the largest cotton milling facilities in the country. Even when cotton manufacturing became scarce, they worked on army tents, wagon covers…"

Hollingsworth Fine Arts

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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… English taste for clothes suited to an active country life, fine quality English dark wool broadcloth, and skilled tailoring led to the rise of…"

Camp Winnebago

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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860

"A well worn men's black wool "country cape," not restricted by fashion and the survivor of long wear, features a large practical hood."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"… have more loudly proclaimed their devotion to our country's cause, none have in fact more promptly responded to the calls of the government upon…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"… and Phillips, advocates for public access to back-country recreation. This small grass-roots organization has developed a new commemorative trail…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… Madisons returned to Montpelier, their Virginia country estate, where James Madison died in 1836. The following year Dolly Madison returned to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… Museum European colonization of Wabanaki Country began in the early 1600s. At that time, a band of a few dozen Wabanaki families seasonally…"

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"… lenses on locally known landmarks, street scenes, country stores and businesses, events and people. The exposed glass plate negatives were sent…"

Historic Hallowell - Dummer House

"… records tell us, "has a death in this part of the country produced a more general sympathy." His widow, who survived him for a number of years, wa…"

Historic Hallowell - More About the Johnson Brothers

"…  that its shoes were being shipped across the country. There was so much demand for the shoes that the factory had reached 450 employees."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 1 of 4

"… history because she liked to explore the world’s countries. She also liked home economics. Her least favorite subject was algebra."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Tillson Testimonial

"… student, devoted to his studies, but he loved his country more and signed up to serve on the 12TH of June in Company C of the 4th Maine regiment of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"… was almost simultaneous throughout the country. Everywhere groups of women were found who eagerly seized the idea and shaped it according to their…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 2 of 2

"… (25%) and Ireland (12%), two heavily Catholic countries. Prior to this there had been only one Catholic Church in town, Church of the Immaculate…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… where the Northeastern border was between the two countries. Luckily, no one was killed by combat in this war and the entire thing was solved by a…"

Monmouth Museum

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L.L. Bean Corporate Archives

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Maine Central Institute

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… Deering sisters of Portland and their “country cousins”, the Judkins sisters of Palmyra. Members of one of the city’s most prominent families, the…"