Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… suited to an active country life, fine quality English dark wool broadcloth, and skilled tailoring led to the rise of superior English tailored…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3

"… mini and new young ‘swinging’ fashions include English designers Mary Quant and Biba, American Bonnie Cashin, French Givenchy and St. Laurent."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"Two gowns are made of imported, probably English, woven floral silks. Such textiles were the product of highly skilled, intensive hand labor, and an…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"In the streets people spoke mostly English and French, but you could also hear German, Dutch, Albanian, Greek, Yiddish, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… smaller schemes, landownership was a matter of English law, to be recorded and proved on paper. Coll. 61, vol. 1A, p."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… Kennebec Proprietors are delineated by the areas English-speaking settlers made claim to, and are specific claims on pieces of Wabanaki territory…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The English felt that Father Rasle was stirring up the Native Americans and encouraging them to be violent against them."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… Treaty and peace (for a while, anyway—until the English issued scalp bounties starting in 1740s and 1750s) possible; Pere Pole, a Revolutionary War…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"The Massachusetts General Court, anxious to see the "eastern lands" settled, readily made grants of land to individuals or larger groups."

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy

"… had two classes in 1849, and they were “General English” and “Higher English”. The first library of the new building was donated by Charles E."

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

"Many of these new people were French or English from the St. John Valley, eastern Canada, or southern Maine."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"For the English sought to obtain ownership of lands and were not highly concerned with the methods used in achieving this."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Innu (Montagnais) hunters from north of the St. Lawrence made incursions into Maliseet hunting territory to poach furs and sporadic hostility…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"The 31 children learned mainly English, as did the adults who attended the weekly adult class. Dedication to the cause was his motivation to ski to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"The purpose of this organization was to support English immigrant worker integration into the Western Maine community."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… first school books were the American Preceptor, English Reader, Webster’s Spelling Book, Walsh’s Arithmetic, Greenleaf’s Grammar and Webster’s…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… growth of the mills brought the French and the English into the community. The depression saw the closing of many of the mills and businesses and a…"

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

"… in Maine, one from the Wabanaki and one from an English colonist. For such women, land represented an important source of wealth and, potentially…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"The English-speaking Anglicans from England constructed a unique structure from stones taken from the Swift River; St."

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

"This made it possible for a building to be made. This building was run by the Odd Fellows in the 1920s for ten years."

Acadian Archives

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… Terraces Trust, Charles designed and built the English style border gardens in the existing orchard at Thuya Lodge and designed and formed the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… places on the Maine coast to be settled by the English was the Penobscot Bay region including what is now known as the town of Blue Hill."