Maine Memory Network

Tate House Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Historic Hallowell Resources and Links

"… on the growing commercial consciousness of America, and his Gazetteer educated the citizens of the new republic about their history, landscape…"

Historic Hallowell - In the Beginning - Raw Materials - Quarrying

"… Beginning - Raw Materials - Quarrying Many of America's finest public monuments were cut from Hallowell granite and sculpted by her artisans…"

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"A walk through Hallowell reveals America's architectural history on display. Impressive homes and a stellar hotel fill the city."

Bowdoin College Library

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Max. The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Gerrity, Robert Michael."

Historic Hallowell - Our Journey Home

"… one that is linked to the earliest settlement of America, and began in what might seem like the most unlikely of places -- a wilderness area well…"

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"1865Hubbard Free Library Many of America's finest public monuments were cut from Hallowell granite and sculpted by her artisans, but why stone from…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"… 1976 Yearbook of Agroculture THE FACE OF RURAL AMERICA X Frequently, the digger lags would come apart and the digger driver had to shut the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"Ice harvesting was not only a local, state or national trade, ice was shipped all over the world as far as South America, India and China."

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… Free Library They were popular in North America, and in their heyday during the late 19th century over 2,000 schooners carried cargo back and…"

Life on a Tidal River - Resources

"Gilman, Robert;, and John Heide. Home Front America: Popular Culture of the World War II Era. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. Print. Shaw, Dick."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"Allan Greer, Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018)."

Historic Hallowell - The "World of Mirth" Carnival in Hallowell

"Known as the finest in America, this carnival would come into the city on fifty railroad carts, so it appeared as if the carnival went on forever."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… the finest public monuments and statuary found in America. The 1850s also brought significant political change, and a significant loss of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"Growing up, my mother didn’t have a TV or toys. She grew up poor and moved to seek a new life in the United States of America."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Sources

"… Washington's Confidant, General of Artillery, and America's First Secretary of War Rockport, Me. : Picton Press, c2003 Puls, Mark Henry Knox…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s

"… O’Brien was one of seven millionaires listed in America at the time of the Civil War. Carr O'Brien Block, Upper Corner, Thomaston, Maine…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor During the 1940s

"Bangor During the 1940s Like the rest of America, the effects of World War II governed much of life in Bangor during the 1940s."

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)."

Guilford, Maine - RESOURCES

"… X GUILFORD AND SANGERVILLE – Images of America by: Sieferd C. Schultz, 2008 PICTORIAL HISTORY OF GUILFORD, MAINE – 1860-1960 2004 - Compiled…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… Maine's separation.[10] New Map of English America, 1677 Since Massachusetts was adjacent to New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York and Rhode…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… people in every European country, and in America, all followed fashion and dressed in the same style."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3

"In prosperous post-war America, New York, and California became centers of a successful and growing fashion industry mass-producing an abundance of…"