Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"In North Yarmouth There Were Two Villages Along the two country roads that passed through North Yarmouth, two village centers eventually developed."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… Heath, Holly Hurd, Val Johnson, Lincoln Merrill, North Yarmouth Historical Society Board Members, North Yarmouth Town Office staff, Sally Semmes…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Riverside Farm, North Road, North Yarmouth, ca. 1895North Yarmouth Historical Society Transporting milk, North Yarmouth, ca."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"In North Yarmouth, Wescustogo Grange No. 27 was formed in 1874. The Grange was the place where farmers and their family members could hear about new…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"In “Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine”, Rev. Amasa Loring writes that the minister’s children “were trained to habits of industry and economy so as…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Fishing villages up and down the coast sent men and boats offshore. Granite and limestone quarries employed locals in quarrying and Maine ships in…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… to get their living by..." could be bound out for up to a year, or "sent unto, employed and governed" in a work house."

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

"Hopkins opened a high school at the North Village. Another source states that in 1887, a course of study way started at the North Village and John S."

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

"The North Village has had two fires that burned much of the main street twice. The first fire was November 1, 1890 (or 1891), the loss from this fire…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 7 of 7

"… 1749 and 1751, in nineteen communities from North Yarmouth to Newcastle that they should either ask the Kennebec Proprietors for a grant to land…"

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

"… economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America. He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He is listed on the John North map as surveyor. His fervent efforts kickstarted the company's incorporation and early activity around 1750."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… of land schemes in Passamaquoddy Bay sprang up under the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia in the late 1760s and 1770s, but they were small, and control…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… Society Francis Joseph Neptune (1760-1834) grew up in a hereditary chieftain family, born in 1760 during some of the most turbulent years for the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… women’s ability to contract meant that women made up a small minority of White landowners in early Maine, both before and after the formation of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… financial management, and in the years leading up to the Pejepscot Purchase managed a thriving waterfront business which was built on complex…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"At the north end of downtown, along Front Street just north of Elm Street, the Moses family built the Columbian House Block in 1852, just one of a…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"The builders had the angel moved to the Old North Church so it would not be destroyed. Also the builders had the angel's red boots turned to…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"It spread north along Front Street, damaging or destroying many businesses including Walter Webber’s Drugstore. Following Walter G."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… its only small-town national chain branch on the north side of Centre Street, despite the small facility and limited parking."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"This bell used to be in the North Church belfry on High Street until it was transported to City Hall. The bell rang every morning, noon, and night."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"Front Street looking north from Arch Street, Bath, ca. 1870Patten Free Library Before the fire of 1895 this part of Front Street was occupied by the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… and shoe store of Samuel Foote on Front Street, north of Merchants' Row. The wind carried the fire along the west side of Front Street burning down…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"The fire destroyed everything all the way North to Hoopers Grocery Store. Windows were broken and gas tanks exploded causing screams from the crowd."