Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"Hopefully, the trap contains lobsters, but there may also be other sea creatures and seaweed as well."

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"A closer examination revealed a shallow grave containing the body of young Lura Libby. Suspicion fell upon a Canadian hired-hand named Lawrence…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"The catechism, which contained 100 questions and answers, focused on the principles then fostered on the younger generation."

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… District of Maine (Regional School Unit 10) contains 478 square miles—more than any school district east of the Mississippi River."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… Fraternity, City of Bangor 1868." The book contains details of an organization he and another man began in 1855."

John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project

"… comprise nearly 1,000 pages, a number of which contain newspaper clippings and other added materials, along with Martin's hand-written comments."

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"The spread of the epidemic was eventually contained. But the spread of the order had just begun. Beginning at The House of Mercy (later named St."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"Leeches are not the only treatment contained in Connolly’s textbook that might surprise twenty-first century readers."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"The new campus contained advanced new facilities, diagnostic imaging, and The Birthplace. Mercy continues to play a major role in meeting greater…"

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"This first residence contained three small apartments, which housed women, some with young children, for up to eighteen-months."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"Inevitably, these accumulations contained family photographs, often unidentified, that included daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes from the…"

Bangor Public Library

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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… use tree bark that was peeled from trees to make containers, wigwam sheathing, and moose horns made for calling moose."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… a fence around the park so the farmers could contain their livestock during the exhibition. To the best of my knowledge, that black rod iron fence…"

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

"… Herald reported on “a huge express package which contained a magnificent engraving of Lübeck, Germany, in the Sixteenth Century."

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

"… it could be handled with a smaller crew and could contain more cargo. This vessel had a brief life, for it was wrecked in June 1903 only sixty days…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… illustrations of his shelves and what they contained, how he tried to keep people from taking products without paying, and how he financed the…"

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

"From then on, the paper contains articles about the progress of the railroad bridge and depot in nearly every edition of the paper until the train…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The casks that contained dried fish, peas and other staples were cracked open and the water caused much of the food to spoil."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… days of August and September produced a corn that contained a high sugar content, thus the name of “sweet corn.” (More about Farmington's Corn…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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