Maine Memory Network

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"No hotels. No spas. No second homes or cottages. Nothing. Ironically, a few descendants now store some of their lobster traps and fishing gear there."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"All thirty-nine ships in the American fleet were either captured, burned or scuttled. The Penobscot Expedition, as it came to be known, remained the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Although the hotel was reduced in size following the 1929 Depression and finally razed in 1950, most of the houses that were built by the visitors to…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… that was held at the illustrious Poland Springs Hotel in Poland, Maine. Executives, their families, and their staff were welcomed at the Maine…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"The first school books were the American Preceptor, English Reader, Webster’s Spelling Book, Walsh’s Arithmetic, Greenleaf’s Grammar and Webster’s…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… firm in Boston to oversee the construction of the Hotel Pemberton at Nantasket Beach. His eighteen months in Boston were critical to his…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… were boarding houses, boardwalks, sidewalks, hotels, restaurants, movies, and dances. The mackerel population had been fished to exhaustion by…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"In the Maine Woods, Forest and Stream, The American Angler, Rod and Gun, and The American Sportsman magazines carried her articles about Maine…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Charles Bell and owned by the Forster Manufacturing Company. Tourists on their way to or from the Rangeley Lakes often stopped at the hotel (which…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - History Detectives

"History Detectives Native American artifact presentation Special guest Barbara Francis teaches the History Detectives club about uses of Native…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!

"From Native American shell middens to the rusted remains of quarrying equipment, Swan's Island holds a living history of the industries that have…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… offices of president of the Maine Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, chairman of the Maine Arts Commission, and member of the Bangor…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"Depression, War, and Fire Belmont Hotel, Bar Harbor, ca. 1910Jesup Memorial Library The Bar Harbor summer colony reached its peak after the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… in Augusta was inspired by the classicism of the American Greek Revival style. Thomas was at his best when designing in the English Tudor style."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… at Bowdoin College, and the Maine Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He made an extensive photographic record of Lewiston…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… a source of food and materials for many Native Americans who used the island as a seasonal, and perhaps permanent, home."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"It punished American merchants in the process by prohibiting trading. However, Paine surreptitiously continued trading at great risk and was so…"

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… run by William Chaloner who also kept a hotel in Lubec • First Christian Church built in Lubec • Brush weirs for the capture of herring came into…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… they were serenaded back to their state-run hotel where Soviet citizens were not allowed to join them in their rooms."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"The Penobscot House was a hotel located in Lincoln Center and was a stopping point for people traveling on the steamboat."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Jonas T. Severy ran the hotel and furnished the rum and raffled off a white horse at $1/ticket. It was said that a hot time in the old town was had…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… factory, doctors’ offices, a rake factory, a hotel, and many other businesses came and went. On the banks of the Androscoggin River, bounded by the…"