Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"Historically – in its dynamic view of a coastal market town emerging from the frontier. Tree stumps are yet to be cleared from the field beyond the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"1915McArthur Public Library Biddeford's coastal location and partially navigable river meant that it was noticed quite early by Europeans."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"… Early in the century, boat builders built coastal schooners and barges in Warren, north of Thomaston, for transport and trade."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… were launched and, subsequently, navigated to coastal and worldwide destinations. It was the only highway to Thomaston before roads were…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"From 1730, the Church Under the Ledge in the coastal area, now Route 88 in Yarmouth, was the center of the community, providing both worship and town…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Captain Candage, one of 52 Blue Hill ship captains of the era, went to sea at 18 years of age and worked his way up to commanding clipper ships…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

".---(SORL) Duncan, R. Coastal Maine: A Maritime History, 1992. Fischer, D.A. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, 1989. Fisher, Jonathan."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… an important role in the character of the small coastal community. Many locals can attest to the fact that the island would be a very different…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"Joseph Wood was 42 when they came to this coastal land whose pristine forests and great pines called to them."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Coastal ships carried this cache to eastern coastal cities for distribution across America. Bangor's river location defined its character; the lumber…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… the small settlement of ancient North Yarmouth's coastal village of Yarmouth to the early inland settlement of Walnut Hill in present-day North…"