Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… suppliers of materials needed to construct the yards and vessels. Prosperity Eastport was captured and occupied by the British from 1814 until 1818…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… small store, a blacksmith, a shoemaker, a tanning yard, a woolen factory, at least four mills, two shipyards, a schoolhouse, and a church."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… who married Dorcas Pratt, established his yard on the northeast side of the Royal River in 1826."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"But a mere 300 yards from the U.S. mainland at Lubec, Maine. Ferry steamers navigated this narrow but treacherous arm of the sea beginning in 1882…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"1910Bangor Public Library M.C.R.R. Freight Yards, Bangor, ca. 1905Bangor Public Library M.C.R.R. Station and Draw Bridge, Bangor, ca."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"About 18000 cubic yard of earth have been received up to the present; 9000 from the Depot grounds in West Farmington, the west end of the bridge and…"

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

"… house was built in 1845 with bricks from this yard. Herbert W. Kennison, a tailor, postmaster, and druggist in the North Village manufactured a…"