Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"And two years after that the island's first road stretched from Somesville to Southwest Harbor, by way of Beech Hill."

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… Music Lending Library: It started in 1983 as a road trip between friends in a borrowed RV. Mary Cheney Gould (founder of the Bagaduce Chorale), and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… in North Yarmouth, located at 598 Walnut Hill Road, was established in 1894 as the town's first community library. Lura A."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… growth of the settlement to a village and a town; roads and houses on the hillsides in place of the retreating forest."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… moving out of the Old Ell and down the road into her niece Marcia Savage’s home. Marcia Savage (1943-2001), the daughter of Richard and Ernestine…"

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

"… down the hill and northwest behind the horseshoe road of Asticou Way along present day Rye Field Lane."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… corner of Elm Street where it meets the Main Road in Hampden. The gristmill and the sawmill that Benjamin Wheeler built on the Souadabscook Stream…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… he served to 1930 then retired up on South Lubec Road. Lightkeeper Eugene Larrabee X Eugene Larrabee occupied the post from 1930 to 1939; his…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… fourteen-mile coach or carriage drive over rough roads to get from the train depot in Ellsworth to Blue Hill."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"They would also contribute to the ministerial building as well as attending public meetings. The first meeting of the Associates was held in 1783…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… a piece of land to the academy and $1000 to build a new building. His only condition was that the school accept all denominations."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The Rail Road comes to West Farmington By the 1850’s, there was “such prosperity and contentment” that no one was selling their farm."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… Ledge” near the coast (at the corner of Gilman Road and Route 88 in present day Yarmouth). Rev. Loring’s sons Thomas, Levi, and Jeremiah purchased…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… to the water’s edge, few houses, the only roads being foot and horse paths. Travel was by boat."

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

"… tough to get between villages before vehicles and roads were constructed. After settling happened between the different rivers and streams, people…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… crews would cut wood in late summer and by winter roads were cleared for the dragging of logs to the river's edge."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… Can was close by and all the cans came up the road from there. Over in Eastport, Lewis Hine the year before had talked with members of cannery…"