Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington High School girls basketball team, 1919

"Farmington High School girls basketball team, 1919 Contributed by Farmington Historical Society Description Group portrait of the 1919…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"Frederick Augustus Tompson (1857-1919) was born in Portland in 1857. His father John A. Tompson was a trucker who transported goods and produce in…"

Camp Winnebago

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"The theatre changed its name in 1919 to the Liberty Theatre, to honor the end of World War I. After the Liberty Theatre closed in 1923, the building…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 2 of 3

"In 1919 the boys were allowed to play in the town hall; they continued until the burning of the structure."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"Founded July 1919 – eight months before the 19th Amendment allocated voting rights for many American women – its mission then and now is to develop…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"In 1919 it became Lafayette National Park, the first east of the Mississippi. Then in 1929 it was renamed Acadia National Park and now protects…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"The Park Theatre opened in Southwest in 1919, and soon, even Somesville was showing movies Thursday evenings at the Masonic Hall."

Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"None of these facilities, however, proved sufficient to cope with the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"… Insurance Maps, 1890, 1891, 1896, 1903, 1909, 1919, 1945. Property Maps, City of Bath, 1999. Bath 7.5 minute U.S.G.S.Quadrangle, 2000."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts’s at 1919, at the age of 5 I was sent to live with my grandparents on a farm in Holliston, Massachusetts, I…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"The wooden four-masted barkentine was built in 1919/1920 by Dunn and Elliot as a coal carrier. In 1928 when coal was eliminated as a cargo item, the…"

Acadia National Park

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"Brackley began manufacturing novelties in 1919. He initially had 13 employees and made the first shipment in 1920."

Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"… as the Spanish Influenza, the pandemic of 1918-1919 claimed millions of lives worldwide. The ensuing health emergency quickly overwhelmed the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"After his discharge in 1919, he established his own office in Portland, where he practiced until the beginning of World War II."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… of 1904 and the Hannaford Brothers Warehouse of 1919-20 in Portland. On rare occasions Stevens turned to professional architectural delineators…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… eventually make Acadia National Park official in 1919. From then on, John D. Rockefeller played a huge role in the growth, success, and upkeep of…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"… school burned in the town fire, the spring of 1919, all of the students went to the Green School."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… of all efforts, a long-burning fire occurred in 1919 and required extensive measures to extinguish."

Westport Island History Committee

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"The global Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, far more than the 21 million killed in the much more…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… flying sightseeing passengers in his biplanes in 1919, and by 1928 he was recognized as one of the pioneers in the industry, as noted in the…"

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

"In 1919 Stockholm decided to build a grade C high school. The school would be started in August when the boys from World War I returned."