Maine Memory Network

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Maine Maritime Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… Historical Society By the early years of the 19th century, the faster-paced, more intimate waltz surpassed older dances like contra or group…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"Still, the economic swings of 19th-century America affected "The Lumber Capital of the World." Instability of credit and of money itself as well as…"

William Fogg Public Library

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"1895Bangor Public Library By the mid 19th century the lumbering business in Bangor had grown to be famous around the world."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… major social movements mark the first half of 19th century American history: suffrage, temperance, and abolition."

New Hampshire Historical Society

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

"… which peaked at just over 2200 during the 19th Century mining boom, entered a period of slow decline during the first half of the 20th Century and…"

Caribou Public Library

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Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"… (MHS) started collecting photographs during the 19th century, as the medium grew in popularity and availability."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… was very important to Hampden during the 18th and 19th centuries providing resources and jobs. The schooner Dispatch built in 1793 is recorded as…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"At the end of the 19th century, Chester became involved in the Telephone & Telegraph business. He owned and operated Franklin Telephone & Telegraph…"

Davistown Museum

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… was very important to Hampden during the 18th and 19th centuries providing resources and jobs. The schooner Dispatch, built in 1793, is recorded as…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… Douglass, the famous abolitionist of the 19th century, and Ernestine Rose, a feminist and abolitionist who traveled around the world."

Skowhegan History House

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… summer vacationers to town toward the end of the 19th century. They were eager to leave behind them the heat and the seasonal epidemics of the…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… Agricultural Roots By the midpoint in the 19th century, our two towns, though separate, were similar in many ways."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… grew and prospered after the beginning of the 19th Century. Thomas Hunter built a wood mill in 1813 and a gristmill soon after."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"In the late 19th century, as paper mills, textile mills, and shoe factories proliferated along the Androscoggin, additional waves of immigrants, in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… the Story of Blue Hill Boom and Bust in the 19th Century The first harvest was old growth timber."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Steam powered the 19th Century, and eventually fog signals at lighthouses. That shed first housed a hot-air horn, then in 1868 a steam whistle…"