Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo Raynes remembrance of trip around Cape Horn

"Alonzo Raynes remembrance of trip around Cape Horn   Alonzo Raynes remembrance This newspaper clipping from an unidentified California newspaper…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Fales Edgarton House

"It is said that the walls are constructed with vertical planks. Many houses of this style of architecture still exist in Thomaston, ranging in…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House

"Captain Watts first built a substantial cape style Greek Revival on Knox Street in which he and his family lived in 1842."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… settled near the Floods in 1784 at "No Man's Cape" as Newbury Neck was called. Although nearby Castine was occupied by the British in June 1779…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… to as Otter's Tail Squatters living on No Man's Cape. They worked together as a tight-knit group. Main Street, Looking East, Surry, 1914Surry…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"Hinckley, clam voyage to Cape Jellerson, failed romance, move to Bangor   Part 4, pages 195-277 Millerites, 1846 freshet, business misfortunes…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… on the building appears to say, "Clothing, Hats, Capes". David T. Stinson (1815-1873) was the son of David Stinson Sr."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… settle 60 Protestant families, build 60 dwelling-houses and a meeting-house, and settle a minister within six years, or failing this, by March…"

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"… moved to its present site on the Surry Road) houses its collections, including a detailed, handwritten twentieth century census, photographs…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… welcomed by delegates of Maine officials and housed in Nowick’s old cow barn converted for the special guests."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… homeowners dumped rubbish in back of their houses. Searching those individual dumps would frequently result in a gold mine find of old metal…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… Maine Hymnals of Phoebe Fowler (found in house attic in 1984) Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth 1890 Maine Census Index of Civil War Veterans…"

Museum at Portland Head

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Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place

"A small cape will abut a Victorian; a bungalow will sit beside what once must have been a farmhouse."

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

"… the group helped set up units in Standish and Cape Elizabeth. For many years, Dr. Haigis was the Maine State Director for the International Rescue…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"Two examples are found in an ambrotype of the William Barnes Alexander House in North Harpswell and in a tintype of the Cyrus Buck House in West…"

South Portland Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… along the Penobscot River, a clam voyage to Cape Jellerson, saving a man at the eddy at Carls Point, a failed romance, operating a butchering cart…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"… Diking a Certain Tract of Marsh in the Towns of Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough.” Chapter 174, 1821 ------ “An Act to Incorporate the Cumberland…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"… second major group of settlers came from Eastham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Included were Amariah Leland and his sons Ezra and Ebenezer, David…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy

"… be annexed Scarborough, Wells, Kennebunk, and Cape Porpoise, as ports of delivery only; and a collector for the district shall be appointed, to…"

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

"A volunteer life-saving crew from Cape Elizabeth hauled a heavy surfboat more than nine miles over muddy roads to the eastern side of Prouts Neck."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"… Society An ambrotype of Richmond’s Island in Cape Elizabeth shows the newly constructed retirement home of longtime Portland physician James M."

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"Davis, Guy P. Gannett, and Henry P. Rines, in Cape Elizabeth. These homes are distinctive interpretations of Tudor period country houses."