Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"Green Mountain Railway Lithograph of Green Mountain Rail Road TrainGreat Harbor Maritime Museum In the 1880s railways were one of the most…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"Third Generation and Beyond Augustus Chase Savage, 1854Northeast Harbor Library Emily Manchester Savage, 1854Northeast Harbor Library…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"Civil War James Parker, Artificer, First Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, ca. 1863Mount Desert Island Historical Society Soon something much…"

Mt. Desert Island Hospital

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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Bar Harbor was called Eden for 1796 to 1918, and the last fifty years of that period was in many ways a “Golden Age” of architectural and garden…"

Jesup Memorial Library

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Abbe Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"For lunch she would bring a sandwich, such as a peanut butter, tuna, or egg salad. She also would bring chips, soda, a candy bar, and fruit."

Davistown Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… hogsheads and barrel staves, white oak capstan bars destined for Boston or Bristol or Jamaica. So many vessels called at Hallowell during this…"

Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"… Clearing land for orchard, wheat Hampden House Bar Bowling alleys Jes Crosman Sands Circus & Caravan Carlton Dancing School Hampden Rifle Co."

Acadia National Park

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"Hinkley, who operated a tavern and bar that served the stage coach business, gardening for Hinkley, the temperance movement and his desire to stop…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… the Navy Airship Shenandoah, which took them from Bar Harbor to Passamaquoddy Bay, to Mt. Katahdin, Moosehead Lake, Rangley Lake, as well as…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… To repairing a Marlin Spike, 2 augers, a crow bar To shoeing a horse To mending a Mill Bar for Sam’l Wheeler Contra By a pair of boots By a bushel…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"… as a restaurant upstairs, and downstairs it is a bar. It still has two bowling lanes in the back room."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"In 1900 there were about 70 bars operating in Bangor. Laws intended to stop the sale and use of liquor were often ignored."

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"There is also a large ferry in Bar Harbor (called the Bluenose). It travels from Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia, Canada."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"He was admitted to the bar in 1780 and became a member of the Massachusetts General Court. In 1784 Rufus was elected to represent Massachusetts at…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"These holes were so deep, and the eye-bars so stable, that folks suggested Mr. Beedy had employed a “Chinaman” on the other side of the world to put…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"These spool bars were sent to the Clark Thread Company of New Jersey to be threaded. In 1873-1875 a Scottish industrialist made visits to Lincoln on…"

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

"John Elliot had built a tavern in 1807, it had a bar and liquor was sold for 3 cents a glass. This area was bypassed when a new road was built and…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… newspaper, the fire was plainly visible at Bar Harbor almost 50 miles away. (Big Fire 2) Public Library catches fire, Bangor, 1911Bangor…"