Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… visitors now bring domestic servants from their city homes, preferring to rely on islanders as cooks, interior home workers and nursemaids for…"

Biddeford Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"… curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School, and two experts from the Sagadahoc History and…"

South Portland Historical Society

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Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Cumberland Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"… curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School and two local experts from the Sagadahoc History &…"

Lewiston Public Library

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Seashore Trolley Museum

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Old York Historical Society

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Old Orchard Beach Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"Almost every veteran was enrolled, including five American presidents: McKinley, Harrison, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield. To be in the G.A.R."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"I guess in the fourth grade- We moved to the city and that was really eye-opening. I remember there was a millionaire that used to live the summer…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"They didn't always agree, and this caused problems in the movement. Finally, on August 18, 1920 and after many decades of the Women's Suffrage…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"This eventually occurred, and the park was re-named Bass Park. The grandstand was built in 1883. In 1897 the grandstand caught fire, but it was…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"He was elected in 1972 and served through 1978 to the United States House of Representatives. He was elected to the U."

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

"Quite a number, however, come from the islands in the vicinity of Eastport and Lubec to work in the canneries in the summer and fall” (p. 87)."

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"At the Community Celebration folks chose the photo of what is now Boynton's market to be enlarged and displayed at the library."

Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell

"… day, it is based in New Hampshire, keeping many cities' and towns' muster traditions going. Hallowell musters were probably sponsored or were…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Baptist Church

"The pastor at that time was Joseph Roberts. In 1880, land was purchased on the corner of what is now Second and State Streets and the building known…"