Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Fashions Far & Away

"… and other items ranging in use from personal effects, bespoke gifts, and those likely intended for the Chinese tourism market."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - ABOUT US

"… ASPIRE stands for Achieving Success through Personalized Individualized Relevant Education. We have a small program of fifteen students involved in…"

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

"… the general depression in business, hundreds of persons were thrown out of employment, large numbers of whom being unable, in consequence, to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Effective agents needed a familiarity with the law, as the proprietors frequently resorted to filing suits of ejectment or trespass against residents."

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

"The system effectively assigned each resident to a municipality, and that municipality became responsible for its residents if they became poor or…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"… your life today?” Jeremy Nelson has had a great effect on the people of Lincoln. He affects the people of Lincoln because if he hadn’t started…"

Lincoln, Maine - Workman's Hospital

"On July 1,1966 Medicare went into effect and the Lincoln Hospitals didn’t pass their inspections and didn’t receive Medicare certification."

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

"World War I and II had an adverse effect and the population stayed the same or increased slightly. The mills were running full blast at this time…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Senate, Gould fought hard and effectively for the benefit of potato farmers while serving as a member of the Committee on Agriculture."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… Statement: The MacGregor spool mill had a big effect on Lincoln The mill itself was really two mills combined. In 1871, James C."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… in town meetings until school consolidation took effect, and did not involve the entire town, but just the individual district."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… for a time, but James's ill health—probably the effects of malaria—brought them back to Maine and to North Yarmouth, where they lived with Ellen's…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… Law enacted in the year 1888-9, which went into effect August 1890, required that all towns provide schoolbooks to all students."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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