Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades

"He bought his first business building on Main Street in November of 1904. Here, he was involved in jewelry sales, watch repair, optical work, and was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"The shop, now a hardware store, is still owned by the Brown family. Emily Manchester operated a hand laundry business in the back of her home."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… Chocolate Church because of its unique chocolate brown color that covers the caramel it was originally before being painted white."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Stimpson House

"… 1820s, this house on Pine Street was lived in by Brown Stimpson, a druggist and mining expert. The original ceilings were reported to be 12’…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861

"Brown, Joshua Morton, J. O. Cushing, William Singer, Lemuel Strout, Burgess and O’Brien, Samuel Watts, Gilchrest, Stetson & Gerry, James Creighton…"

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"(1961): 10. Print. Brown, Will. "Will Brown in 50th Year in Business on Main Street." Bangor Daily News 1954: 285. Print."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… & vest sometimes a black coat & sometimes dark or brown most generally cut frock coat and as a rule smokes a cigar while in the streets." He also…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"… in cars they made during the war were black and brown unlike the cars of today. The reason they made dark colors is so that airplanes could not…"

Pittsfield Historical Society

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… another prominent lawyer, after graduating from Brown University moved to Thomaston in 1818, where he spent a long and successful career as lawyer…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"… Thompson, Philip D Stubbs, Nelson Walker, Percy M Brown, Llewellyn Hartwell, Frank H Smith, Richard E Burns, Frank E Howard, C. B. Luce, William H."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"Parsons, John Burnham, Clark Houston, David Brown, Victor Abbott, and Orville P. Tucker. After he recorded the eleventh family he wrote: "There ends…"

Maine Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… fox farm to close in Lincoln was owned by Will Brown. It closed in 1947, five years before fox farms became illegal in 1952."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Theresa's Catholic Church was founded in 1926 on Brown Street. In 1920 a four-horse coach delivered the mail down river from Rumford, through Mexico…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"Brody Brown "How did Ira Fish impact your life? Your future? Our future as a town?" Ira and his brothers were the first people to settle on what we…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… flood was caused by ice jams at Swan Island and Browns Island but with the warming temperatures in the late winter, early spring, the winter ice on…"

Caribou Public Library

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"Charlotte Blake Brown Charlotte Amanda Blake Brown was one of the first female doctors to practice in the West Coast of America."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… school above the Lutheran Church, primary grades Brown School, and the High School. The only school that has not burned is the current school on…"

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

"He met Joseph Brown and Nathaniel Davis on their way with their families. When Stephen Titcomb and his family got to their lot they found that the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… of Scarborough from 1633 to 1783 (Portland, ME:Brown Thurston, 1853). 2. Scarborough Historical Society Collection: The King’s Highway."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Brown & Co. constructed first sardine factory on Water Street 1882 • The Passamaquoddy Ferry Co. founded for the purpose of running a steam ferry…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Soon thereafter E.W. Brown and Company built the first factory on Water Street. The next two decades saw 23 sardine factories constructed in Lubec…"