Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"… Bowdoin College in 1962, and then went on to the Boston University of Law. After graduating cum laude from law school in 1965, he returned to…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"Armed with a grant issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, they chose a site on Mill Island well known to Maine's Native Americans for thousands…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"Residents of the Boston colony quickly sought permission to settle the area as hostilities ended. Joseph Wood and John Roundy added their names in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… founders, was director of an opera company in Boston. They were soon joined by other prominent musicians including renowned violinist Franz…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"Some farmers hung on and there were at least five commercial dairies in town before the Second World War."

City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 3 of 3

"Designed by Boston dressmaker W.H. Bigelow, the garment is trimmed throughout with colorful hand-embroidered floral sprays, and chenille bobble…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"… Pickering Thomas, Portland Eaton Tarbell, Bangor Olmsted Brothers, Boston Stockly & Leahy Associates, Portland Wadsworth and Boston, Portland"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"Over the next forty-four years, Eaton W. Tarbell and Associates designed several thousand projects that included homes, schools, churches, and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"His eighteen months in Boston were critical to his professional growth, for he was exposed to the work of H.H."

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… had joined the firm of Wait and Copeland in Boston. Proposed Nordica Memorial Museum by John P. Thomas, ca."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"In 1950, he moved to Boston to complete his architectural education at Harvard while working for Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"George Coombs learned drafting from Boston architect Frederick Hamilton. At the age of twenty in 1872, Coombs entered the office of Lewiston…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"The Boston & Maine still exists and its one remaining line accommodates both freight and Amtrak passenger service."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"The Boston Flint Paper Company was started in 1890. It was located at the bottom of Greenville Street before the railroad tracks."

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… staves, white oak capstan bars destined for Boston or Bristol or Jamaica. So many vessels called at Hallowell during this period that news was…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"Cornice stones for Boston's Quincy Market, for example, were produced beginning in 1815. Largest Granite Slab cut from Hains Ledge Quarry…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations

"Boston: Mercantile, 1889 Nason, Emma H and Sam Webber. Old Hallowell on the Kennebec. Augusta, Maine: Sam Teddy Publishers, 2009 N.p.: n.p., n.d."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"The plans appear on page 631 of his Journal and the descriptions of each numbered item on the illustration are on page 632."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Nason, Emma Huntington. Old Hallowell on the Kennebec. Augusta, ME: Burleigh & Flynt, 1909."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"… the area of Broad Street and India Street, replacing decaying wharves; and the Dover Street Bridge between Boston and South Boston opened in 1805."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"He hired Samuel Batchelder, who made the mill a success. Both men had hands in the Saco Water Power Company as well, the real estate and machinery…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… books available from England and stock from the Boston book trade. For those who couldn’t afford books he provided the services of his innovative…"

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"Payson of Boston. In 1887, Payson changed the name to Kennebec River Mills. Row House, Hallowell, ca."