Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"Pepperell Mills boarding houses, Biddeford, ca. 1875McArthur Public Library The "China Trade", started in 1852, was integral to the success."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… part by the National Historical Records Advisory Board (NHPRC), focused on the working drawings from John Calvin Stevens, Frederick A."

Bangor Public Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Schools were kept open as long as funds allowed, usually about eight weeks in spring and eight in winter -- four months in all."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"In the first few years of the switch board being here, there were six subscribers, John MacGregor, Dr. L.H."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… addition to the age old spear and atlatl throwing board and dart. Fired ceramic pots, possibly an outgrowth of earlier soapstone bowls, appear in…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… from the establishment of the Maine State Board of Agriculture in 1856 and the University of Maine in 1865."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… in the form of a hollow umbrella-shaped sounding-board suspended above his head by a well carved hand and arm let down from the ceiling, as if from…"

Sanford-Springvale Historical Society

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First Parish in Portland

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"The Mooseleuk Club voted at board meetings to which charities they would donate part of the horse’s winnings."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"In Bangor she was a teacher, principal, school board member, and then superintendent for eleven years."

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"Sister Annunciata served as board chair of the Maine Hospital Association from 1951 to 1953. Aside from her professional attributes, Sister…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… was not yet in place; visitors still boarded in private homes and arrived by water. Travel around the island was by water or rickety “buckboard”…"

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

"His son had attended Yale in the Arts and Harvard Law School and had been brought up in a pulp and paper family."

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… founding committee evolved into a more formal Board of Trustees. By 1993, 22 women with 28 children had resided at the Portland location."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… at the new plant that it was difficult to find boarding space in town. Over 700 laborers were involved in the construction."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Doughty School; and Priscilla Soucie, School Library Media Specialist, William S. Cohen School Howard House, Bangor, 1869Bangor Public Library…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… Academy, a small independent college preparatory boarding and day school for boys and girls in grades six through high school."

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

"… Everett Barnard, both carrying transits, boarded the flat bottom boat with some Canadian workers to cross the choppy waters towards the Lubec…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Main Street Bath and the City of Bath Planning Board deserve special mention for their significant contributions."

Colby College Special Collections

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