Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Sweetser, Phyllis Sturdivant. Cumberland, Maine in four centuries. Cumberland, Maine: Town of Cumberland, 1976. Text by Thomas C. Bennett"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… History: The Civil War in North Yarmouth and Cumberland Like so many small towns throughout the United States, Cumberland and North Yarmouth made a…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"A toll road across the marsh between Dunstan and Oak Hill, the Cumberland Turnpike was the first turnpike in New England. Dr."

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… just a week later, his friend Manola Gilman of Cumberland Mills noted “you boys are about as safe in France now tho [sic] as the people are around…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"Verrill in North Windham, Spaulding Bisbee in Cumberland, and Walter G. Davis, Guy P. Gannett, and Henry P. Rines, in Cape Elizabeth."

Gorham Historical Society

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Windham Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… College, principal owner of Maine’s first cotton mill in Brunswick, and a founder and president of Bath’s first bank."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… of Old Blue Point and Portland Street (Milliken Mills Road). It ceased operation in the 1920s and the building moved.(5) It was later burned down…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"… substantiate company land claims, and the roads, mills, and meetinghouses they built helped make the rest of the proprietors’ tracts more appealing…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"1870-1890 Haskell Silk Mill, Westbrook, ca. 1874Walker Memorial Library After the Civil War, sewing machines reached the professional…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3

"Rayon filament was delivered to textile mills, wound onto cones, ready to thread onto looms and be made into fabrics marketed as artificial silk."

Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century

"… electrification of Bates Manufacturing Company mills, Mrs. Scrimgeour was well positioned to enjoy a sophisticated social life, and afford fine…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3

"Bates Mill in Lewiston produced vast quantities of textiles for war purposes, from uniform fabric and hospital bedding, to parachutes and life rafts."

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"Biographies This site includes select biographies (listed at left) for database-represented architects and firms."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"George Coombs By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Home for Joseph Briggs designed by George M. Coombs, 1884 Maine Historical Society George Millard…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"Gridley Barrows By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Gridley Barrows (1912-1999) was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1912."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"Project Background and Partners The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database started as a project in 2002, when Maine Historical Society (MHS)…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"John Calvin Stevens By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. John Calvin Stevens, Portland, ca. 1910Maine Historical Society Born in Boston in 1855, John…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"Database Overview An ever-growing resource documenting Maine’s built and designed environment, this database includes architecture and landscape…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"Database Collections Below is a listing of collections currently represented in the Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database, organized by…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"Maine Architectural Renderings By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Bramhall by Charles A. AlexanderMaine Historical Society With the emergence of…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"Eaton W. Tarbell By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Born on an Aroostook County potato farm in Merrill in 1914, Eaton Weatherbee Tarbell (1914-1992)…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Lost Gardens of Eden “Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: the landscape of Mount Desert Island” by Patrick Chassé."