Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Arcy Cary Bradford's gigot sleeve wedding dress, ca. 1829 - Page 1 of 2

"Richmond Bradford on September 3, 1829. The couple and their family lived in Turner, and eventually moved to Auburn."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3

"… there were over one hundred residents, a couple of stores, and even a dance hall. Mr. and Mrs. Butler's house, Blue Hill, ca."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin Snow casket at grave, Bangor, 1889

"In 1880, she had married G. Fred Snow, and the couple moved to New Brunswick, Canada, where he worked. She died while visiting her parents in Bangor."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"Coupled with the Evening Express’ penchant for photographs of the “everyday person”, the paper featured celebrity outings, public events…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"After a couple of years her mother remarried to Mr. Lund. When Annie got married to Hjelmer Landeen she was 18 and he was 28."

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… like those of Hain’s Ledge Quarry just a couple miles west of town provided easy access to the raw material and it was almost all down hill to the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"… second wife Erdine Kent Watling in 1954, and the couple used their house to take in boarders. Erdine's sister Marion Kent Norton (1896-1985) moved…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"Coupled with two U.S. battleships, the USS Utah and USS Florida, naval representation spanned three continents, further demonstrating the First World…"

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

"… business records of the Pejepscot Proprietors coupled with supplementary records generated by or in relation to company activity along the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"… within four years of his appointment, but after a couple of years removed his family from Augusta to a house he purchased on Main Street."

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… colonists and the Wabanaki in 1736, a Penobscot couple visited an English household to relay a warning."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"About eight years later, the couple got back together when their daughter was thirteen. Shep moved his family briefly to Chicago, but came back to…"

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

"The Great Depression, coupled with the loss of Atlas Plywood (the town’s major wood products industry) in 1935, signaled the end of “industrial”…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"The couple made more than one attempt to migrate to Mount Desert Island from Marblehead to establish a homestead."

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… folk, found its completest record.” Young Couple from Hallowell X If all members of the community did not set out to “be right on all…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"And uhh… I’ve seen a couple of pictures from the past of school kids that look pretty raggedy. There was no style- you wore what you could get a hold…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"… wood, concrete and vinyl siding, and it took a couple years to complete. It was known for making hardwood products such as little beaded crafts and…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"So we had a couple of those hurricane lamps that also used kerosene, but we had to figure out how to light those."

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

"Gas tanks exploded and walls fell every couple of minutes, causing screams from the crowd. Soon the Brunswick Hand Tubs were there to help."

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

"At this point, a couple of other Loring family members owned Skyline Farm. By 1870, Jeremiah’s son Charles Richmond (C.R.) Loring, who lived in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"The isolated and precious natural beauty, coupled with its rugged energy, provides for us all a quality of life that beckons us to be at once…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"There were a couple of people that were not as influential as Galen Moses, but still connected to the Columbian Block."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"… cars and an unidentified building were just a couple of the many damages caused by the Bangor Flood of 1902.Bangor Historical Society 1902 The…"