Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"… group of year-round loggers arrived and built the camps out of logs (surprise!). The buildings were usually huge, having to hold hundreds of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"SEE New NOTES Mary Camp Swanton and Henry Worcester Swanton, Ambrotypes, ca. 1864, BathPatten Free Library In addition to Zina Hyde, John Swanton…"

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"The prisoners at the camps had to buy their own food and John would sometimes sell his possessions in order to get money for food and other…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"Evidence of the location of Champlain’s original camp ultimately won the day over Passamaquoddy testimony, and future commissions on the political…"

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

"… went to jobs at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Bar Harbor during the 1930s helping build the infrastructure for Acadia National Park."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"He pitched his camp there. Then he returned to Gloucester for his family and set to work. Soon more settlers arrived, including James Richardson, who…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"The soldiers trained at Camp Washburn (named for Maine Gov. Israel Washburn), a temporary assembly and camp area in Portland’s East Deering, across…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… ice age hunters of mammoth and caribou, camped around Munsungan Lake and quarried high quality red, green, and gray chert (flint) which they used…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… Army in the Rhode Island campaign as aide-de-camp to General John Sullivan. After his service, Rufus studied law with Theophilus Parsons in…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"… army where he sketched battle scenes and camp life. Back in his studio after this assignment, Homer worked on a series of war-related paintings…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"I had- we had a kerosene stove from camping. So we had lots of camping equipment. So we did get our cooler out and we did get our stove out."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… was washed overboard and her body floated to Camp Ellis. For years, lobster fishermen knew that area of Stratton Island as the old wreck."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"He would spend the rest of his life preaching wherever he could find an audience. But his biggest audiences would come at the camp meetings that were…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… her letters to John when he was away at a lumber camp in winter, Ida describes daily challenges: the cow drying up, firewood stolen from the porch…"

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

"They lived in two large camps near the site. The waterfront was very busy with vessels carrying construction materials arriving daily."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Lawrence Cannery Camps, North Lubec, 1955Lubec Memorial Library In 1880 Moses P. Lawrence, Henry Dodge and Julius Wolff established a sardine…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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