Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Exhibits

"Exhibits Staples brothers waiting for the bus, Swan's Island, ca. 1955Swan's Island Historical Society In creating our exhibits, especially…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… or seller for goods for profit, like one who carries on a trade. Merchants are usually operators of stores."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"Lorena and Carrie Dunton, Bath, ca. 1890Patten Free Library Additionally, when the Universalist Church was built in 1839, and torn down before 1863…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… was an accumulated understanding important to carry out the process, an understanding of how long to leave the herring outside, given temperature…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"1900-1920: Kneisel Hall: Kneisel Hall was established in 1902 by conductor Franz Kneisel. Kneisel worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Little Carrie very sick indeed. Dr. Bartlett glad I came. Very sick and growing worse. Mrs. Park sat up in the evening; Mrs. White came and watched."

Historic Hallowell - The Information Call Script

"… CAME THERE WERE DOCTORS THERE, FROM THERE, THEY CARRIED VIRGIL WHITE TO THE CLEARWATER PHARMACY WHERE HE WAS TREATED."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"… Masonry first came to America from settlers who carried the tradition from the British Isles. The early Scottish settlers in Nova Scotia came from…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… By: Carrie Fellows Dedication of Odd Fellows Hall, Guilford, 1904 Dedication of Odd Fellows Hall, Guilford, 1904Guilford Historical Society…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"In 1916 the Masonic hall and the Odd Fellows Hall replaced the old school house. All of the past buildings in this location were further known as the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… account noted, "All the intricate evolutions were carried out in their minutest details under his supervision, with all the precision of military…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… have remained unclear, the arrangement was never carried out and several lean years followed for the school."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… themselves and the specific types which carried the disease Stevens was able to make the decision to clear the work sites for two hundred yards…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… road running through its center featuring a town hall, grange hall, two stores, churches, a blacksmith's shop, a schoolhouse, a boarding house and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along the Penobscot from making trips to Boston when…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"After another year, in 1901, they finally built a hose house on School Street beside the old town hall."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"According to 1909 records, the railroad carried 70,000 passengers and 70,000 tons of freight. Farms were an important role in the town’s growth and…"

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

"… and known such hardship and suffering, yet they carried on. On May 7, 1879, Benjamin Lord deeded the family homestead to Phebe."

Westport Island History Committee

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

"These steps are described by Hall in his report of 1896 (pp. 476-78) and the 1900 Report of the Maine Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics (pp."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach ocean travel routes. Harvested smelts and sweet grass. Ox Cart at N.W."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… encouraged to decorate windows, and the paper carried a notice entreating anyone who could spare flowers to decorate the tables of Norumbega Hall…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Lumber Capital of the World," a moniker it would carry into the next century. The Penobscot River played no little part in Bangor's growing…"

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

"… that demonstrate the technological advances that carry through to today’s automobiles, vans, and trucks."