Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone, Farmington State Normal School, 1898

"Carolyn Stone, Farmington State Normal School, 1898 Contributed by Mantor Library at UMF Description Carolyn Stone graduated from…"

Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"In the years 1898-1911, the costs were reduced from $937 to $75. This may have been due to start up costs for the police force in 1898."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economy on Mt. Desert Island

"… began as the Tufts Summer School of Biology in 1898, and the Jackson Laboratory was started in 1929."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"Klondike Plant #1 After closing in 1898, the original Klondike plant was purchased by he Standard Sardine Company and fish was processed there for…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"… life, the greater unity, the "all in all." -- Preface to THE HISTORY OF THE WOMAN'S CLUB MOVEMENT IN AMERICA, By Mrs. Jennie June Croly (1898)."

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

"… Mine which was in operation from 1890 to 1898. Most of the laborers were locals but there were also quarrymen from Italy and Scotland."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Resources

"2001 ed. Ellsworth, Me.: Hancock County Pub., 1898. Print. Westbrook, Perry D. Biography of an Island . South Brunswick: Yoseloff, 1971. Print."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 3 of 3

"1900Maine Historical Society By about 1898, the sleeve had deflated and lost its significance. The neat sleeves on an end-of-the-decade dark green…"

Bridgton Historical Society

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War Resources

"New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898. Jeffry, William H. Richmond Prison 1861-1862. St. Johnsbury, Vermont: The Republican Press, 1893."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 4 of 4

"Portland, ME: Lakeside Press, 1898. Print. Mundy, James H. Second to None, The Story of the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry: “The Bangor Regiment”."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… and scrapbooks Martin wrote from 1864 to about 1898 comment on his life, architecture, landscaping and gardening, education, business, inventions…"

Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"The Children’s Hospital opened in 1898 on High Street. Six years later, on Woodfords Street, St. Barnabas Hospital was founded to treat patients with…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"… business and building to his brother George in 1898, who, with the help of his father moved the structure back 75 feet from the road and turned it…"

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"In 1898 the Fire Department moved from its location on Winthrop Street to the old Town Hall building on Second Street where it exists today, making…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church

"Founded in 1898, the Women's Alliance held an annual May Day fair, which raised funds to maintain the church until it was passed on to the Farmington…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"… and Rumford Falls Sunday Paper Train August 1898, BuckfieldGreater Rumford Area Historical Society Buckfield was first settled in 1776 by Benjamin…"

Belfast Free Library

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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"1940Lincoln Historical Society In 1898 the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company brought the first telephone switchboard to the town of Lincoln."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… State Normal School, where she graduated in 1898. Upon receiving her diploma, she was one of three in her graduating class to be invited to teach…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 1 of 3

"… Baseball Baseball started in Guilford in 1898. The games were played at the Town Field which was owned by the Town of Guilford."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"As Dr. Small states in his 1898 history, “This tribe made irregular visits to the island for many years after the white settlers came, but of late…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… Harbor 1939Northeast Harbor Library By the year 1898, despite having previously built the first Asticou Inn in 1883 (a 40-room hotel with only one…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… of it remains today, for eighteen years, from 1898 until 1916, Hampden’s own Riverside Park was one of the premier entertainment spots in Eastern…"