Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"Scarborough Historical Society Collection: The King’s Highway. 3. Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Old Boston Post Roads,” National Geographic (May 1962)."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… stream of people gather at the steamboat wharf to collect the mail, visit the shops, travel, or just see people."

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

"1950Maine Historical Society Drawn from the collections of the Lubec Historical Society, the Maine Historical Society and a private collector…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Here in Bath, the collective result of these processes is a deep, straight, five-mile shoreline ideally shaped for shipbuilding and easily reached by…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"Various items from the MacGregor collection at the Lincoln Historical Society X Courtney Shaw “Create a statement and prove or disprove it with…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… meeting to establish governing officers and the collection of taxes on March 23, 1812. They also needed to vote for a governor, and senators for…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Library, Lubec Historical Society, Edith Comstock Collection, Lubec Landmarks and Susie Calder. Map of Cobscook Bay Area, 1881Lubec Memorial…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Bangor Historical Society; Bill Cook, Special Collections Librarian, Bangor Public Library; Lori Patterson, School Library Media Specialist at…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"1913.” Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection, Ann Lewis and Mike Sponder, May 2015, lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/items/show/1611. Contributed."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Collection of the twenty-year bonds began on June 4, 1968, and took only 9 days! Numerous workers invested their severance pay from Eastern and used…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Charlotte left a collection of her family's papers to North Yarmouth Historical Society. —Text by Katie Murphy with contributions from Holly Hurd…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… Below are examples of early textbooks in the collection of the Farmington Historical Society. Early Transportation C."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Many artifacts were collected over the years and found their way into private collections as well as the Islesboro Historical Society."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"Quite a crowd of men, women and children collected on the brow of the hill near the residence of H. B. Stoyell, Esq."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"Step-one was to collect spruce resin. Curtis hired farm boys to go out in the woods and gather the sap."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… safety, being a role model to the student body, collecting payments for destruction of property, and teaching the wrongs of slavery."