Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Bangor, 1869Bangor Public Library "We came to a little river near which it was necessary to anchor, as we saw before us a great many rocks which…"

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

"Along with ice, logs flowed down the river and created a dam, causing the water to back up. When the water overflowed onto the banks, the Great…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… ruins, Bangor, 1911Bangor Public Library We little realized going through the heart of town the horrible change we would find."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"… I received your epistle of the 6th, and A little fellow in it that done me a sight of good. Tody is my birthday and I have just celebrated it by A…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"There was little light. There was overheating in the summer and it was very cold in the winter. Throughout the war overcrowding, disease, and hunger…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"At age nineteen, John had little schooling but had a great idea to make a company and make the resin into chewing gum and sell it."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… – have plenty of wood —build five places in our little shelter tents, and live like nabobs.—(minus the pomp) We have plenty of work – enough to eat…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… through ponds and streams, until they reached the Little Norridgewock to Sandy River. The settlers spent more time exploring the area and felling…"

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and long sleeved shirts. Hallowell was the location of the great sorting boom for down-river mills."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"When he was little, Alvin used to make little inventions for fun. He made a wood splitter powered by a water wheel, and he cut cucumbers slices with…"

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Moor. Mr. Moor died in the Mattawamkeag River trying to cross the river to give the north part of Mattawamkaeg its mail."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"Colonel Josiah Little Josiah Little was the son of Colonel Moses and Abigail Little and born on February 16, 1747."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"Aaron’s mom probably didn’t let him when he was little, but when he was big he made his own garden in Lincoln because he was never able to as a kid."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… was to build a spool mill on the same site as the little sawmill, already a major employer. With the help of the spool mill, no man should be…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… the locative placename of the lower Androscoggin River, as Pejepscook (Pejepscot), and the upper river homeland, Ammoscongon (Amikôkan)."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… the son of the last clerk of the company, Josiah Little, a Bowdoin College classmate. McKeen gifted them to MHS after his death."

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… Who does not remember Johnny Stringer--the queer little man with a large head and body set upon very short legs, who came from over the sea to make…"

Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep

"… clothing - the tasks of human existence vary little at the basic level. So it was in Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Little Vigril White was trapped inside the store when this happening occurred. The stable that was occupied by Simmons! The Stearns had gotten…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"… with their son, Peter Clark, and his wife and one little child, landed upon the shore of the Kennebec and made a path for themselves to the spot…"

Historic Hallowell - Volunteer Firefighters and their Fire Clothes

"… the emergency is, but for career firemen, they send a bell to the firehouse. Volunteer firemen play a vital role in saving lives for little pay."

Historic Hallowell - Ice; The Ice Storm of 1998; Ice Storm '98

"… and Ashley Boerner Ice thickly covered every little branch and glittered in the sun like a million diamonds."

Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Of 1937

"… Moore’s home next to the library and caused very little damage. Another one of the freight cars catapulted through the large window at the west end…"

Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Poem

"… With the wall opened big The librarian did a little jig The work crews ran like bats out of a well Luckily none of them fell Amidst all this, right…"