Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"Veterans Captain Seth Spring and Captain Moses Bradbury built homes and multiple saw mills on what became known as Spring's Island in the 1790s."

Bangor Historical Society

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Walker Memorial Library

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Merrill, a Civil War veteran, recalled the days when Scarborough was a well-known shipbuilding center."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"The 1950s brought change as veterans returned home, married, built houses and became involved in the community."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… was a fraternal organization of union Civil War veterans. The youngest would have been 60 in 1911, assuming a 14 year old fighting in 1865."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"A monument honoring Lubec’s Civil War veterans, as well as those of subsequent wars, was dedicated on September 20, 1904."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Nearly 2,700 men from Bangor served during the Civil War, 236 of whom did not return home to their city on the Penobscot."