Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… and townhouse erected in the township." Peru Center Ferry A horse and wagon are docking at the Peru Center Ferry landinfPeru Historical…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"Elizabeth’s Child Development Center. Residents like Deborah Minton, who lived at St. Elizabeth’s between 1966 and 1968, remembered the security the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"Soon a new learning center would be built and named for Gwilyn Roberts, a former student, member of the Kappa Delta Phi Fraternity and later a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"Winn was held as a center of Catholicism, and reverends attended different towns, Enfield and Lincoln, and held services at homes."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… theater and before long, the Criterion became the center of upscale entertainment activity for summer colonists."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"Lewiston, Maine: Dingley, 1929. 369. Print. Goodwin, Beckie. Their Eyes Hath Seen the Glory. Lincoln Center, Me.: B. Goodwin, 1992. Print."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"Jacob also built a grist mill in Lincoln Center. Stinchfield Monument, Lincoln, ca. 1887Lincoln Historical Society He married a woman named…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"During the 1980s and 1990s, the city’s business center relocated from the downtown area of Main Street to the northern end of Presque Isle as new…"

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

"The bridge was found to have been rotten in the center of the beams, where earlier inspections had missed its severity."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… brought excise tax dollars and jobs; a fitness center opened; library usage increased by 56 percent; and the Saulter Facility was built as planned…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Blue Hill village was centered mostly around the harbor, which helped unify its people, because such a town center provides a focus for the entire…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… out of the abutment of the bridge in the center of Lincoln. So great was the pressure under the bridge that the water burst through the road…"

Bangor Public Library

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"1971 • Regional Medical Center founded 1972 • American Can closes in Lubec • Movie theater burns • Lubec Crafts Council incorporated 1975 • McCurdy…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… impact on Farmington’s role as a cultural center in Maine is undeniable, not only for his eloquent influence, but for his direct impact on the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… Portland in the Long Creek Youth Development Center, formerly known as the Maine Youth Center. Gould purchased 6,500 acres of timbered land on…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Lubec, 1955Lubec Memorial Library Lubec’s center of population began to shift from North Lubec to the Point."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… since it had lost its primary commercial center when the village of Yarmouth seceded from North Yarmouth in August 1849."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… built a log house next to Bounty Cove near the center of the island. It was originally called “Little Island,” then “Longue Island Plantation” and…"

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

"… 20th century, Lubec and Eastport were the twin centers of this fishery industry. The sardines canned there were really little herring, the same…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… is a tract of land six miles square, whose center is about five minutes south of the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… WorldCat Identities, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. , 2019, www.worldcat.org/identities/."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… the largest and most expensive house in Deering Center, Maine. During the last months of his life he took an interest in ancient Egypt and the…"