Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"Our kickoff Community Brainstorming Meeting held at the Cumberland Town Hall in October, 2009 elicited a seeming endless array of fascinating topics…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… building at various times housed a movie theater-hall-basketball court, bowling alley, pool hall, barber shop, variety store, town jail, and town…"

Sanford-Springvale Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Disasters - Natural and Man-made

"Sumner Webber, the City Historian and a retired Hall-Dale teacher, brought a suitcase full of resource materials to the middle school and exhibit…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"In 1928, the magnificently built Town Hall was completely burned to the ground. It was never rebuilt."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"Stone Wellness Community is named in her honour, and eventually turned into a co-ed wellness community sometime in the late 1980s."

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"When the first Town Hall was constructed in 1828 it included a small lock-up to house offenders overnight or on a short-term basis."

Islesboro Historical Society

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… floor of the Parker School and at Union Hall (Community Hall), with eighty-two pupils enrolled altogether."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Within a couple of years the Klan moved out and the Goodwill Hall became a facility for sports and other social events."

Penobscot Marine Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"John Kidder, Virgil Haines, William Hall, and Orville P. Tucker were among others owning farms during this time period."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"This hall was known as Chase Memorial Hall and when Mr. O.W. Chase died the building was left to the New Portland Lion's Club."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943

"… 1934Nylander Museum Nadeau Lake lime deposit, 1925Nylander Museum Hall's Lime Plant, Nadeau Lake, ca. 1925Nylander Museum"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"The second floor contains a hall and meeting room used for town meetings and community events. In the Levensaler Block, on the adjacent corner, the…"

Swan's Island Historical Society

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"… & Elliott Company, Masonic Hall, Odd Fellows Hall, Guilford, 1916Guilford Historical Society The old Masonic Hall in Guilford was once located in…"

Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"… Company also had its own store and the Veneer Hall, which was used for movies and dances and meetings and church services."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"In 1916 the Masonic hall and the Odd Fellows Hall replaced the old school house. All of the past buildings in this location were further known as the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"For many years this hall was used for public functions, being centrally located. In 1937, the Rolerson family built the Ocean View Movie Theater."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… pride in the displays to be found in the exhibit halls. Adult and student 4H exhibiters from both Hancock and Washington Counties bring crafts…"

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

"Scarborough Town hall X Bibliography Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts."

Maine Maritime Museum

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