Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church

"It is located at the intersection of Lee Road and Main Street. A major event about this church was that Isaac Burton donated a clock for the front of…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"As more and more cars came to Islesboro, the dirt roads became very dusty. The Red Wing brought the first tar truck to the island to oil the roads."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Derby Road sported a candy and sundry shop, post office and library in one block. Across the street was a women's dress shop, operated by local…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… under the bridge that the water burst through the road surface, leaving a hole a yard in diameter. Despite “numerous and extensive” washouts…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"They were not in sterile buildings, but in buildings that were hard to clean and did not have appropriate antibacterial cleaning supplies."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"She first settled by Elis Lund on the Madawaska Road. After a couple of years her mother remarried to Mr. Lund."

Presque Isle: The Star City - King Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1920

"The King family later sold the farm and bought a farm nearby on the Easton Road. The sprayer is hauled by two horses, which means that the pump was…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"A dam, south of the County Road (Main Street) created a millpond, which backed up under the bridge and to the north, upon which several mills and a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Libby’s house on Transalpine Road. The house was built in 1840 by Chandler Bruce. Thomas had a house that had enough room to have two families in it…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… willing to put in the labor required to clear roads and create a farmstead. It is this land that would later become the town of New Sweden."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Project Partners

"Physical Address: 116 Station Road, New Sweden, ME 04762 Mailing Address: PO Box 33, New Sweden, ME 04762 For more information, contact Deb…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"… administration- ya know they had public road projects paving streets so it wasn’t so bad here. The city was much worse."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"It was the only highway to Thomaston before roads were established along Maine’s coastline. Map of the New England Coast, 1610Maine Historical…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… Second Baptist Church, PO Box 17, 102 Main Road, 734.2055 Town Office, PO Box 76, 150 Main Road, 734.2253 www.maine.gov/local/waldo/islesboro/…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Transportation

"In the 1830's the Military Road was built from Bangor to Houlton and later to points north. The New Brunswick Railway came to Presque Isle in 1881…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"George road then and was went to school it’s no longer there used to be on school street. Kristen Sawyer: In Thomaston? What town did you live in…"

Historic Hallowell - Blizzard Poems

"… warning last minute necessities struggling people Roads plow’s success died down difficult transportation troubled vehicles Deaths 56 seamen, 5…"

Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"Q Were many roads open? A No, many roads were blocked by fallen trees. Q Was it hard to get to mail boxes? A Yes it was there were ice and branches…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"Vietnam didn’t have any paved roads like the United States and my parents couldn’t afford to buy shoes, so walking made their feet bleed and dirty."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"If you were going down a rough road, you could pull a lever inside the car which raised the whole car body higher off the ground."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"That looked like little roads. Albert and his friends would take their tricycles and wagons and pretend that they were driving on the highway."

Lincoln, Maine - Asa Griffin, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"… a large farm in Lincoln Center on the Town Farm Road. The Masonic Hall later became the Lincoln Town Office."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"Tree limbs had knocked onto peoples houses and roads,damaging about everything. Like cars, and homes."

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"Poor Farm City "Poor" Farm, Poor Farm Road, Hallowell, 1879Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner In a Mayor's Address from…"