Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844

"Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The Millerites, a…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891

"… Historical and Art Museum Description Camp on the "Mill Site" on a fishing trip. Participants went to St. Croix Lake then down the St."

Poland Spring Preservation Society

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"They named the island they camped on that first winter “St. Croix,” either as a reflection of the cross-shaped conjunction of the rivers around it or…"

Stetson Historical Society

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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…"

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…"

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…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… leaving this relatively palatial home and de-camping to the 2-bedroom, 1-bath Old House. The Old House built by John Savage II ca."

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."

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…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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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…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… hay and potatoes which were needed for the lumber camps to survive. Many of these farmers also worked as lumbermen during the winter months."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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