Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Running the Town

"Also during the 1950s Velma M. Holmes became the first town teasurer, followed by Bernice Sprague who served in this position from 1957 until 1992."

Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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

"… Desert Island Historical Society During the late 1950s, Charles waged a personal campaign to curtail the number of utility poles and transfer…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… of an article for the Lewiston Daily Sun in the 1950s: The Church on the Hill, Dixfield, ca. 1855Dixfield Historical Society This early…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… reported that when he was growing up in the 1950s his family only went to Bar Harbor once or twice a year, mostly to buy school clothes."

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

"1950s video of logging on the Chain Lakes from the collection of Roger Morrison The first thing to be built was a flume to send lumber along to the…"

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

"Beginning in the 1950s, Wabanaki people, often led by those who had fought for the United States in wars starting in the 1940s, began a new era of…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"New In-migrations since the 1950s. A series of migrations from urban areas along the Eastern Seaboard and as far west as California has brought new…"

Caribou Public Library

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… was originally a sheet-metal manufacturer in the 1950s, but eventually evolved into a heating business and then an automobile dealership."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… in the creation of the Thuya Garden in the late 1950s and a small library of rare botanical books for Thuya Lodge. John D. Rockefeller Jr."

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

"… Donald and Marguerite’s second child in the early 1950s, they decided that it would be best if Donald worked closer to home."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"(The U.R.K.P. was disbanded in the early 1950s). The Third Battalion was located in Calais with its Company #11 in Eastport."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… truck and fire station were acquired in the early 1950s. Police first came to the island on a temporary basis, with a deputy sheriff in the summer…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"By the early 1950s most of these small, independent schools had disappeared. Some were demolished; others were used for other purposes in the…"

Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"… visited Maine antique shops as a child in the 1950s, the contents of estates were the source of many dealers’ stocks."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… illustrious career spanned from 1916 through the 1950s. She performed on many occasions and in many locations on and around the island, creating…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… were many ups and downs; the last “up” was in the 1950s. In the decade many sardine cans were placed in little boxes with an innovation, a key to…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… a building boom in the city that lasted into the 1950s. In addition, Presque Isle became Aroostook County’s first city in 1940."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… War." The air base was reactivated in the early 1950s and was now called Dow Air Force Base. It would serve as part of the Strategic Air Command."

St. Croix Historical Society

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