Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeastland Hotel

"In 1884, a devastating fire broke out and burned the tavern which also served as a hotel to the ground."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"… she could play was if the digger or harvester broke down. The workers would sing songs and play in the barrels."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

""The digger broke down" meant that there will be a chance to catch up on picking potatoes or to rest or play."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"… on a farm he had his own pony named Scout that he broke himself. He would chase his siblings around the pastures."

Town of Cumberland

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"… accompanies the drawing that when the Civil War broke out in 1861, Daniel Chaplin, a clerk for Thurston & Metcalf used part of the building…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"… to scrape by during the Depression, and when war broke out in 1941 they were all very busy with production of war goods."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"… break anything, you bring it back new.” Somebody broke a little window, I can’t remember who it was now, but anyway he says, “When I come back…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"Marion broke her hip beyond repair and lived in the corner room on the first floor which is now part of the seating area in the Tea Room."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"… 17, 1947, after a dangerously dry summer, a fire broke out in a cranberry bog outside Hulls Cove. Though the fire was slow moving at first, the…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… Every Town And City In Hallowell a water main had broke and Hallowell was worried it would run out of drinking water."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"… call to service was later in the year when a fire broke out in the Carr O’Brien Block next door, location of the George's National Bank at the time."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"… be so mobbed by enthusiastic visitors that they broke down her gangplank. Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt, was among her 50,000…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"When war broke out between the states in 1861, the first company of Biddeford volunteers left that May."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective

"… X Students examined the material and broke it down into topics to be researched, created a working groups, and began to put together an idea…"

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

"When the American Revolution broke out, the Fluckers abandoned their holdings in the American colonies and eventually returned to England, leaving…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… From the 1680's to the 1760's, war after war broke over the natives and settlers like the waves crashing along the rocky shoreline."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… during one flood, the boom chain that held logs broke, and the logs washed over the dam during high water, smashing nearly every window in the…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"After that, the head-saw broke the logs into cants, unfinished logs to be further processed. Edging took the trim off the logs."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… in cars, and on the sidewalks in case a dispute broke out. Body of Clarence Lee Shaffer, Bangor, 1937Bangor Historical Society Dalhover asked…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"On top of the flood waters, some fires also broke out. The power connections were shut off, but short circuits caused these fires."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… goes that when they hit a large storm that broke off the mast and he lashed his wife to the stub of it to keep her from being washed overboard."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"… treated better than the wounded soldiers, so he broke out of the hospital. More evidence of his bravery during the Civil War was they had to steal…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"When the War of 1812 broke out, William served as a major general in the militia in charge of the Maine district."