Maine Memory Network

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… Style into the twentieth century, the more formal Colonial Revival style came to dominate his work. Both the Shingle Style and the Colonial Revival…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"Thomas favored the Shingle Style and the Colonial Revival for his houses and the Romanesque Revival for his public and commercial buildings."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Particularly in the arts and technology, the folks in Biddeford have found new and striking ways to express themselves."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… Fluckers abandoned their holdings in the American colonies and eventually returned to England, leaving Lucy the sole member of the family on…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… years, John Alden and others from the Plymouth Colony visited this trading post, perhaps explaining the later arrival of southern New England…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"Additionally there was a huge and thriving arts scene in the area, in no small part due to the many talented French-Canadians who had moved here."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… and John Roundy sailed "downeast" from the Boston colony to a sheltering bay at the foot of the blue hill."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Though short-lived, that British colony marked the beginning of more permanent settlement along the western side of the river in what became known as…"

Old York Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Two other villages successfully developed summer colonies -- Northeast and Seal harbors. In 1869 the Clement family in Seal Harbor rebuilt their old…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"For most of the 20th Century, the town's summer colony helped make Blue Hill a busy place for two months in the summer, but year-round jobs were…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… meat, fish and produce for the expanding summer colony. During peak season delivery trucks hurried about to the summer cottages and large yachts…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… a hundred and fifty years before conditions in colonial New England would allow any attempt at permanent settlement."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Historical Society As with other areas in colonial America, much of the trade was done by bartering."