Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… pioneers had seen hard service in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, had been inured to hardship, toil, and poverty, and fully realized…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Bourque, Bruce J. Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine. By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers…"

Westport Island History Committee

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

"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"On another page of the ledger, Plosway is called ‘Indian Plosway’. We wonder why it was important to make note that Plosway was an Indian, but for…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians despite British efforts to enlist their support against the Americans."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763 brought a brief era of peace to the region. Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… paddle up the Penobscot River, walk the ancient Indian footpaths while fording the streams, or trek beside ox-drawn wagons over river ice."

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…"