Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… shipbuilders owned huge tracts of land in North Carolina and Georgia, where lumber was harvested and brought back to Thomaston for new ship…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"The north and south stores were for retail sales. The brick building is captured in a drawing done by John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… illustration, which includes the five canoes, has north at the bottom. Martin wrote, "Every available place on the bridges custom house wharves…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Division Street School, Bangor, 1865

"… of Division Street school House situated on the north side of the street in the rear of the Resivoir, House painted chrome yellow with yellow…"

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"… seen working the sorting boom in a view looking north on the river from neighboring Chelsea. The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… ships: the Vinalhaven, Governor Bodwell, and the North Haven, served the needs of Swan’s Island. After the North Haven departed, no replacement was…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"Wiggin Nathaniel Harlow Elizabeth Blowers Mr. Spanford Singing School Plan of north end of Bangor"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Purchases land in North Lubec 1795 • Cushing survey of North Lubec completed – lots assigned to settlers on payment of $5 1797 • Daniel Ramsdell…"

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…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… years, they maintained a water pump at the north end of town to supply a reservoir for fire protection."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"It is the earliest map of North Lubec, known as Soward's Neck at that time. Cushing was a surveyor sent to the area from Massachusetts to lay out…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"… built a ship with Maxcy and Mathews on his land north of the Narrows. Shipbuilding made for prosperous times in the town."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… Maine was the crossroads of English and French North America, and all the old hatreds and arguments crossed from the Old World into the New with…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… Lincoln Historical Society Sorting gap, North Lincoln, 1910Lincoln Historical Society In the fall of 1825, the Wendell Brothers from…"

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

"… were being sent down from Fryeburg and points north. Before 1800 there were 17 sawmills around the falls, cutting an estimated 50,000 feet of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"North Dam Mill, 2010. Photograph by Kylie Clukey, Biddeford High School. X For more information..."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… lands to disappear among the tribal bands to the north and east; their culture and customs only to be puzzled out through the archaeological record…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"The end of the war in 1945 was not the end of Mattie Pinette’s distinguished government career. She was hired as Chief of Employee Development in the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Dist.# 2 - The schoolhouse was situated further north on the road to Farmington near the old Conant place, in the area now known as the south end of…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… the Straw and Martin Insurance Office located on North Main Street. C.A. Smith rented space from Straw & Martin for his photography studio."

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"5-6. Print. Bangor Daily News. "Last Days of North Lincoln Ferry. Picturesque River Service to End When Bridge Spans Penobscot River.” Bangor, ME."

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

"Central Elementary in the North, the last school in town, closes at the end of the 2009 school year."

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

"… was finished people used it to settle on the north side of the Madawaska Stream. However, in 1923, the bridge was washed out by a major flood."