Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… frequency which the original items were consulted and handled in person; preservation concerns; the overall breadth and uniqueness of the holdings…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… across the country steward important collections" and strengthen "efforts to extend the reach of such materials and make their intellectual content…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… a number of Irish families near the Kennebec River, the British briefly flirted with the idea of transforming the Sagadahock into its own colony…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… of land in Brunswick and Topsham between 1715 and 1722, and continued a policy of selling initial plots of 100 acres for £5, to entice colonists to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"Both companies formed to legitimize and take advantage of titles to vast tracts of Wabanaki Homelands, but the different origins of their claims both…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"… most of the presiding members of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors lived in and around Boston."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… Pejepscot Proprietors relied on Benjamin Larrabee and Enoch Freeman to collect payments, sell additional lots, and to deal with squatters or…"

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

"“A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… a passage through the rapids in the Adroscoggin river. Company (Check that HENRY) He remained active in overseeing his property until he was past…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Peter Holman and his wife Mercy (Knight) are buried in the Holman Cemetery that can be reached by crossing private land of Holman descendants on the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… by Robin Hood, in 1675, on the Wescustogo (Royal) River, and appeared on a deed regarding land on Merriconeag Neck with Robin Hood and her brother…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… Society, Rumford Publishing Co, Inc., 1972 and Josten’s Printing and Publishing, Topeka, KS, 2000; Rumford Falls Times Lewiston Evening Journal…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"They represented an assortment of about 30 sizes and over 50 different brands. The Square Bag Department manufactured a bag having a double fold on…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Stanley and his Rangeley Spinner, late 1800s. From East Dixfield the Apple Cutter, Patented October 20, 1857 and the Apple Corer, Patented April 6…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5

"and Mrs. Clayton Laplant Jed Beach, Thesis “Outside Eden”, 2003 Ruth Kidder Papers, DHS Coll.#139 "Bicentennial Calendar", information from DHS…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"One day a loud snapping noise came from his upper spine, caused by the separation of his neck and back, therefore causing further curving of his head…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… team ended the regular season with fourteen wins and four losses and ultimately lost to Deering in the Western Maine Quarterfinals at the Portland…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"Research and Development was still a strong asset at Oxford which developed a new trial blade method of applying coating for the high gloss sheet…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"This balcony held the organ and choir so the attendants had to “about face” when there was hymn singing."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… by reviving an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine. This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as “The Proprietors of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 3 of 3

"Specifications, Contract and Bond for Mt. Zircon Brook Supply, March 31, 1913. Personal Interview with Janette West Blouin, October 12, 2012 Second…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 2 of 2

"They ended their regular season with forteen wins and four losses and ultimately lost to #5 seeded Westbrook in the Western Maine semi-finals."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"High School Portland and Rumford Falls Sunday Paper Train August 1898, BuckfieldGreater Rumford Area Historical Society Buckfield was first…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Project Photos

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