Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"… “Imagine my surprise and wonderment on reaching Bangor to behold such a large city with its vast fleet of vessels, steamers and cars, everything…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… Old Town to Lincoln, and was later expanded to Bangor. The rail was used by sports teams to go to out of town games, and the military used it to…"

Fort Kent Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Bangor Daily News (Bangor): 27-28. Print. "One Thousand Attend Annual Chapman Picnic." The Sun Journal (Lewiston) 12 Sept. 1924: 34. Web."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"The Boston & Bangor Steamboat Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited

"Thompson, Deborah. Bangor, Maine 1769-1914 : an architectural history. Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1988."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"It also served as the Bangor Theological Seminary until 1819 when Isaac Davenport gave the Seminary seven acres of land in Bangor."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"It also served as the Bangor Theological Seminary until 1819 when Isaac Davenport gave the Seminary seven acres of land in Bangor."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"XXIV, No. 1, January 1964. Bangor Daily News, November 10, 1923. Bangs, Carrie, “Klondike: The Gold from Sea Water Story Promoted by the Electrolytic…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Early in the 19th century, it even competed with Bangor, its neighbor to the north, for economic dominance in Penobscot County."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"The trolley was later owned and operated by the Bangor Railway and Electric Company. The Bangor, Hampden & Winterport Electric Company trolley…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"1882Maine Historical Society In 1884, a railroad extension from Bangor through Ellsworth connected to a new Mount Desert ferry terminal."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"… Skippy told me to go get his dad who was in the Bangor hospital and bring him home. James, Skippy’s father, wanted to go see his son in Waterville…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"Frances H. Clerque of Bangor decided that he would bring the two together and create a railway to the top of the mountain."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… team from to win a state championship at the Bangor Auditorium, and the boys were the last team to win a state championship at the Bangor…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Works Cited Page

"1998 Storm Edition ed.: A1. Robbins, Ryan R. Bangor in Focus The Ice Storm of ’98. n.d. 25 Apr. 2010…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… and every one almost who was of more than ordinary note. -Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, 19 August 1886. Continue to Activities for Rusticators"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… 1865, Warde and six Sisters of Mercy arrived in Bangor, Maine where they opened a school that later became Saint John School."

Oakfield Historical Society

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… Maine Charity School, but the latter was moved to Bangor and is now known as the Bangor Seminary. After the connection between the two was…"

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

"In a recent Bangor Daily News farewell to the Auditorium article (February 2013), the Rumford High basketball team of 1977 was named as one of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"Governor Angus King said that the cost to CMP and Bangor Hydro Co., the state's two largest electric utilities, would top $25 million."

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

"… in the State Class A Championship game in Bangor. The margin of victory was 20 points, the most for a State game at the time."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Passengers traveling south from Vanceboro or north from Bangor were halted at Lincoln and transported the rest of the way by bus and taxi."