Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"Green Mountain Railway Lithograph of Green Mountain Rail Road TrainGreat Harbor Maritime Museum In the 1880s railways were one of the most…"

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

"… abundant undeveloped land and easy access to mountains and the sea are factors that have attracted families and businesses."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"On the east side of Carr Mountain, near the home of Ben Royal, was a Way Station that had a tie up for horses and lodging for travelers."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"The Black Mountain Ski Resort now features skiing for the family at affordable rates, a tubing hill for the non-skier, and a modern, up-to-date lodge…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… and Special Collections Library Over the mountains, to the south, the three towns of the Nezinscot Region are powered by a more diversified…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… School merged with Mexico High School to form the Mountain Valley High School. Many athletic teams reached the state finals, bringing recognition…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… from the Pennacook tribe had a camp on the mountain in back of what is known as the Ira Wing farm."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"In 1813 it was voted to extend this road over the mountain, past the west side of Worthley Pond, and continue southeast to the Sumner town line…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"A school building was erected on Roxbury Road and one near Highland Terrace before 1850. The next to come was the Walton School, then the Kingdom…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Selectmen, Town Clerk, and Tax Collector, Bondsmen, Road Surveyors, Hog Reaves and other positions were elected to see that the town would be on…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"Years later their efforts turned into the Coos Road, running from northern Vermont down the Androscoggin and Sandy River valleys to Hallowell."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Horses pulled the stage over roads that are closed today. Bowery Corner, an old intersection connecting various roads in the Severy Hill area, put up…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Dist.# 10 - Another schoolhouse in southern portion of East Strong was located at the end of the Lambert Road."

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"He lived on a farm on Roxbury Road in Mexico. John joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1943 after graduating from Mexico High School."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"… stood on the corner of Main Street and Roxbury Road and sold medical supplies, codfish, tea, molasses, rum, hardware, and bolts of cloth."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… in 1908, laying a water line from nearby Day Mountain Pond. The Strong Water Company was created by an act of the Legislature on March 15, 1899."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Eight years later in August, 1861, the Mount Washington Carriage Road Company opened the road to the top."

Acadia National Park

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"Soon they held the top of Cadillac Mountain, and in 1916 they offered the federal government more than 6,000 acres."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"The White Mountains were covered by heavy ice, blocking 850 miles of trails and roads. All that ice from the storm destroyed power lines, which…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts

"… “not only for its accessibility and unrivalled mountain view but also for that quiet seclusion and freedom from disturbing influences which are…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"…then came the settlers… Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837Maine Historical Society While exploring Mount Desert as a place “to carry on…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… protection of the road corridor from Brown Mountain gatehouse (Acadia National Park) to the entrance to Asticou at the junction of Routes 198 and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… a bridge because if he had been walking on the road, he would be asked why he was traveling on the Sabbath."