Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… he will take parties to several Islands in the bay and around Mount Desert Island. Carrying sporting parties to places where porpoise and seal may…"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… worked in the quarry on Dix Island, in Penobscot Bay, off Rockland He was thought to have come to Hallowell with Bodwell in 1872."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… same quarry at Mussel Ridge Islands in Penobscot Bay. The architectural style of the 2.5 story building is Italianate. The roof is a hipped roof."

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

"… Flucker and Waldo squeased out of the Broad-Bay Germans (settlers of the Waldo Patent in Waldoboro)” and “I will to my oldest son, sixty-seven…"

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Wilson Museum

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Cumberland Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… the weather would permit a sail boat to cross the bay Later they were carried daily The department established a mail route and paid the mail…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… his connection to the Rickers, who acquired the Bay Point Hotel in Rockland in 1902, renaming it the Samoset Hotel."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… passengers and freight were ferried across the bay to Eastport to board steamships bound for New Brunswick or Portland and Boston."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… children, about the points of interest in the bay. - Bar Harbor Record Centennial Souvenir Edition, July 1896."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… bone flutes found by archaeologists on Frenchman Bay. They also had, and continue to have, a rich oral tradition that explained the world around…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… generally three of them, and further, into “bays” with “rails” in them. Above the ground level, the smokehouse had a series of “windows.” (P."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"It has a wooden bay window that was added in 1909, and the bricks that make up the outer facade are painted green, yellow, and tan."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"When 1954 came, the town had built a two-bay fire station. It was also shared with the town office. This set-up is still the same today."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Massachusetts Bay Charter of Scarborough and Falmouth becoming a town in 1658Scarborough Historical Society & Museum The question of title to the…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Sargent, Ruth, Images of America: The Casco Bay Islands, 1995, Arcadia Press, Dover, New Hampshire. Schmidt, Gary, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… was created at Mount Desert Ferry, in Frenchman Bay, from which a steamer ran to Bar Harbor. The island had already been getting visitors before…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… built to the house, and a front porch, with a bay window and balcony above it on the second floor… Mr."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… to the Kennebec River and down to Merrymeeting Bay to their homes. For the next five years the settlers continued to prepare their lots for their…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"Note that the water of Johnson Bay beyond the end of the street is not visible, probably a result of fog always common in Lubec even during midsummer."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… and craggy, defile the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay. Early navigators petitioned for protection from the treacherous scarred precipice as they…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"One is in Massachusetts and one is in Penobscot Bay. He designed the one in Penobscot and it was very popular around here. He was quite a character."

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