Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… slavery by waging war with Confederate States of America and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. In achieving both these goals, he is considered…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Given that glass stereo views were made in America between 1854 and 1862, it is possible that this view was taken during the August, 1861 opening of…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"… of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America grant program facilitated item-level cataloguing, condition assessment, and rehousing of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… PhD, is an historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World, and an associate professor at Texas State University, with…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America. He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… the border between the US and British North America still remained unknown. Exploring survey, St."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… the first French overwintering settlements in the Americas under an expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain, the…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"… is known as the birthplace of nordic skiing in America. Skiing was brought by the Swedes when they settled the Swedish Colony."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… has been called “one of the richest villages in America” and yet, its year-round population and business options continue to decline."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… Colonial Daughters Chapter of the Daughters of America as a ‘true pioneer of education.’ In June of 1961 she was also awarded the title of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… was the crossroads of English and French North America, and all the old hatreds and arguments crossed from the Old World into the New with vicious…"

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

"Sources: "Lombard Steam Log Hauler." America's Only Steam and Threshing Enthusiast Magazine: Steam Traction - Farm Collector. Web. 6 Apr. 2010."

Wilson Museum

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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"… Society Masonic History Masonry first came to America from settlers who carried the tradition from the British Isles."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… the family that owned the largest summer hotel in America. The reason they did this, as one writer noted, was because this family, "like most…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"With the 1960's came a medical club, a junior rescue organization, a ski club, pep club, future teachers of America, and a volunteer production staff."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"… Society & Museum Attitudes towards homework in America in general have shifted with the changing times, and the homework levels in Scarborough…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"The Lutheran pastor, Andrew Wiren, had been in America four years before arriving in New Sweden and had learned English."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… ice was shipped in sawdust to the south, Central America. Ice was even shipped away to countries like Cuba and the West Indies."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… ice was shipped in sawdust to the south, Central America. Ice was even shipped away to countries like Cuba and the West Indies."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, 1989. Fisher, Jonathan. Scripture Animals : A Natural History of the Living Creatures Named in the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… said, “Ninety-nine percent of the violins made in America at the turn of the century were European. The fact that this man was able to make a…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… just for tonight!”, became very popular here in America. That poem remained by far her best known, even though she published many poems, often in…"