Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… Nations Conference of the Human Environment at Stockholm adopted a ten year moratorium on commercial whaling to allow the whale stocks to recover."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"It was one of 2 major commercial quarries on the island; the Toothacher Cove Quarry being the other one."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"On the coast, commercial traders felt bound to Massachusetts because of otherwise inconvenient shipping laws, and a growing inland debate ensued over…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… who favored the Georgian Revival style for commercial buildings such as the United States Trust Company Bank in Fryeburg (1922), the Fidelity Trust…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… than three hundred domestic, religious, public, commercial, and industrial structures on the Portland peninsula and another one hundred in the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… the growth of fishing in the early 19th century, commercial lobstering didn't reach Maine until about 1840."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… while not losing sight of furthering the commercial attractiveness of Asticou, Charles came into his own during the 1950s with many like-minded…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… (1827-1906) was a leader among Wabanakis who commercialized their public identities to make a living."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… Library According to that 1911 edition of the Commercial it was the most destructive fire ever "visited upon a Maine city, save for the Portland…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… used for crossing rivers and lakes, or taking commercial tours of Maine’s rivers and lakes. Though steamboats now and then were both used to carry…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"The number of commercial licenses is limited and they are difficult to get. More licenses are available for recreational clammers who want to dig…"

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

"… as people moved to town to fill jobs created by commercial growth. Although an era of peace, conflicts in Korea and Vietnam involved Scarborough…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Yet, for reasons both commercial and social, since the earliest times, people in this region have regularly made such journeys, and evidence of this…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… sold in the 1970s and became the site of several commercial ventures including an antique store and restaurants."

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… which would "result in irreparable damage" to the commercial interests of the mercantile coastal communities."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… Telegram, "In the matter of planes Maine has one commercial filer whose experience qualifies him for consideration with the best pilots recognized…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"The Bangor Daily Commercial reported that this much interest in a racing event had not been seen since the Hank’s Grand Circuit race in 1913…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

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

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… a developer who had planned to put in a number of commercial entities, which he never did. But he leveled Little Blue, and filled in Rollo Pond."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… streets of Lubec This arch near the corner of Commercial and Pleasant Streets welcomed visitors who arrived via the ferry wharf at the camera’s…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… papers for periodicals, catalogs, books, and commercial printing. Mead was also a major producer of paper products for schools and offices, as well…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Prescott Ford, A Sketch of the Discovery of a Commercially Profitable Process for the Extraction of Gold and Silver from Sea Water, Robinson Press…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… was the Islesboro’s second wharf following the commercial wharf built next to the lime kiln in Pripet."

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

"Norman Martin, a Bangor commercial artist, designed the 31-foot-high statue of the mythical lumberjack On the 250th anniversary of Bangor, people…"