Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"The church was on French Street, opposite the Hammatt Block. John D. Towle of Boston designed the Italianate structure."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 65-83

"Coombs Eben French Court House Maine Charity School Bangor House Peter Edes Bangor-Old Town railroad Mount Hope Cemetery North Bangor (Veazie) Bangor…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… gallery vestibule of the Third Parish Church on French Street in Bangor are part of a journal that John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor wrote and…"

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

"A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) Lt. John R. Andrews, Biddeford, ca. 1861McArthur Public Library CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… at least eighth graders - - Strong offers modern French to grades K-8; Enjoy a 95 percent average daily attendance by students and teachers; Show…"

Early Maine Photography - Art

"1855Maine Historical Society When the French artist Louis Daguerre announced his invention of photography in January 1839, painter Paul Delaroche…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"Many clubs competed and won awards. They had a girl's glee club, boasting around sixty members, and a boy's glee club, with fifteen."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"As Loron wrote in 1725, with the help of a French Jesuit priest, “Here lies my distinction—my Indian distinction."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"Adams, in the 1863-64 City Report These words were spoken by Mayor John Q. Adams after the Civil War had been raging for 4 long years."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… of the "Swanckadocke" River to Richard Vines and John Oldham, "containing in breadth by the sea four miles, and eight miles up to the mainland."…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"Humphrey Pike, 2nd Lieut. John Lord, 4 Sergeants, 4 Corporals, 1 Drummer, 1 Fifer, and 36 Privates. Next..."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"(Google Books) 1 Jan 2010. (N, A, M, S) Frost, John E. The Biddeford (Maine) record book. S.l.: s.n., 1968."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763 brought a brief era of peace to the region. Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… “Brule-Cote,” meaning “Burnt-hill” in his native French, presumably due to evidence of past fires on the island."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… tanner and a farmer, and his wife, Harriet Leslie French. His attendance at the Maine Normal School lasted only two years."

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

"… Sea Flower; Revolutionary War documents; French spoliation claims for the brig Hope; records of churches founded in towns settled by the Pejepscot…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"Some of the earliest documents from 1764 pertain to areas at the eastern end of the border (a survey of Passamaquoddy Bay by John Mitchell) and in…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… the dramatic rediscovery of the remains of the French settlement of 1604 on Bone Island (modern-day St. Croix Island) and Robert Pagan deposition."

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

"A late night rain helped firefighters gain the upper hand on the conflagration, and the last embers were doused by 7:00 a.m."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… eleven times, five times in possession of the French and six times in the hands of the English.The British prevailed at the Battle of Quebec, which…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… States was right here in Maine, against the French Catholics coming down here from Quebec. So, we understand. We have been part of it as well."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"Although the Wabanaki Nations remained a formidable power until the 1760s—their strength augmented by French support from Québec and Acadia—the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"The French quickly abandoned the island, however, after a disastrous winter that left nearly half the colonists dead."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… Nova Scotia—which at the time were under de jure French and de facto Wabanaki political control—was decidedly more provisional."