Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan Free Public Library

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Cary Memorial Library

"… Wayne Historical Society and the Town Archival Board maintain the library's Historical Archives. A complete index of our historical records as well…"

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."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"They had to be accommodated with boarding houses, and the management decided that they must live as well as work under the best possible conditions."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"“We would tell stories around the fire or play board games in the candle light with family and friends staying with us ” said Bruce and Marcia Bell."

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."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… on the western side of the harbor, built a small boarding house next to the steamboat wharf in the early 1860s."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"The company also built a large boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row Street for their workers' families, a stable and two barns."

Sanford-Springvale Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"… represent the Maine Woods at expositions and on boards promoting tourism. However, with the introduction of the automobile and trucking industry…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… drafted, but not accepted so the entire planning board resigned in frustration. The Town Dump closed for good and a crude transfer station was…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"In this year, the Secretary of Maine's first Board of Education, William G. Crosby of Belfast, called for the need of a Normal School in Maine in his…"

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

"Savage’s hired hand, Harry Merchant, in the roof sheathing boards which were once part of the big barn. More on the Old Ell..."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… is the aforementioned 1953-54 story of Charles, boarding the overnight train for New York City, to enlist the support of JDR Jr."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"… Oxford Paper, was elected a member of the first board of directors of Champion International in 1901.) At the same time, it was announced that…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Today, the Brick Inn houses many of the local college students, The present owners, much like the previous owners, have continued to maintain the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… rooms of houses within the district, the teacher boarding around from house to house in the district where he taught school."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"The plan of the Immigration Board representative, Mr. Albert A. Burleigh, Esq., was to select 25 of these lots, have the state clear five acres on…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… run through computer programming, or managed on board by a handful of staff. Train tracks are now made of steel or other metals."

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Logging

"… down and transform trees into logs and logs into boards. Hallowell Steam & Boom Company, Kenebec River, Hallowell, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… Early ferries were conveyances that were mainly boards and ropes fashioned to make a raft, or they could be boats, large or small, which could…"

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

"At first, parents boarded the teachers, with each family's time based on how many children it had in school."