Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… woman standing on the porch with her right arm leaning on the porch post. A third and final move of the Old House occurred around 1900 at the time…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… shadows, while twilight fell around us so softly that one felt like a baby in its mother’s arms.” Continue to Guiding Services for Sport Hunters"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… and, in the face of withering hostile small arms and mortar fire, succeeded in placing an automatic rifle team in position to neutralize the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… I took supper After supper I took the boy in my arms and started for the pinnacle. Metalluk, son of a great chief and the last of the Cooask-aukes…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… bodied men were either drafted or enlisted in the armed forces. Many women were enlisted to do work in all departments of the mills and keep…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"… McAuley modeled the Sisters of Mercy coat of arms on the original Order insignia. Students were housed at the school, and between 1920 and 1952…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… Cutter Service, the maritime law enforcement arm of the Treasury Department, morphed into the U."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… dozen grim corpses lay before us, some without an arm, some without a leg and some without a head. Night coming on ended the fight."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"1930Guilford Historical Society Armed National Guard Troops at Guilford Woolen Mill, September 17, 1934Guilford Historical Society In 1934…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"Hutchins, armed with an ax, felled trees and cleared a lot in the East Village. He built a log cabin and became the first resident, living one mile…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… steamers navigated this narrow but treacherous arm of the sea beginning in 1882, later supplemented by auto scows, both suddenly obsolete the day…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… town of Gray, 109 men answered the call to arms, including brothers from the same family: James Lawrence, Luther Lawrence and Charles Lawrence."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… bridge, it is stretching out its wooden legs and arms toward its eastern terminus with a rapidity which neither injunctions nor any more probable…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… in a rotary oven with the flakes on moving arms, the flakes were stacked on racks to cool. Then they went to the Packing Room where women and girls…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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