Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… with the warming temperatures in the late winter, early spring, the winter ice on the river melted at a fast rate."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"This new building was home to a large shop, a home economics laboratory, a science laboratory, and three additional classrooms."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… Fair - 1954Guilford Historical Society In the early part of the 20th century, Guilford was home to the largest fair in Piscatquis County."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"This tribe first began to feel great losses as early as 1607 when the Popham expedition came to the mouth of the great Kennebec River."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The potentials of the land attracted early settlers. The soil was rich and well drained; abundant forests spread over the landscape; smaller water…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Early Athletics The early High School Newspaper, The Solecism, mentions several athletic encounters as early as 1886."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"Early silent movies, including popular Buster Brown comedy shorts, and cartoons were shown on weekends."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"It was built between 1890 and the early 1900s. It was built by David Campbell for his daughter, Louise, and her husband, Ernest Genther, as a wedding…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"Also, he could build his home, farm, and store because of all the lumber we have in Lincoln. Third, he could bathe in the rivers since it was moving…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"In the early 1800's, Pond published a book against slavery. Another was Reverend Amory Battles. Battles was an abolitionist at the Unitarian Church…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"1955 X In the early 1940’s, Abby Dolloff married Carleton (Carl) R. Semmes and, in 1944, purchased the farm from various Dolloff heirs."

Colby College Special Collections

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Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"In the early 1900s CMP, Central Maine Power, built two large dams and power stations that we still have in use today."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… and all the kilns fitted so as to be burned early in March. Creighton Kiln Base, Thomaston, 1900 Into the twentieth century lime kilns were…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"Shep became a merchant early on in life because all of the children in his family needed jobs to make ends meet."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… of Saco and Biddeford, with notices of other early settlements and of the propietary governments, in Maine, including the provinces of New…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… was formed in 1990, the story goes back to the early 1970’s. In 1973, Carl Chase heard a steel band play while he was visiting the Caribbean."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… Guilford, 1954Guilford Historical Society In the early 1950’s the construction for a new steel and concrete bridge was underway after being…"

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"Goodwin, Kathrine B. Personal Glimpses of the Early Settlers of Lincoln, Maine. Print. "Gravestone Record." Mattanawcook Observer. 5th ed. Vol."

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"1950. 109. Print. Goodwin, Kathryn. Personal Glimpses Of The Early Settlers Of Lincoln, Maine. Lincoln: 67. Print."

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… in Ireland, where its founding order began in the early nineteenth century. Like the hospital which bears their name, the Sisters of Mercy made it…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"As early as 1802, Blue Hill had requested a secondary school. A surveyor from the town rode on horseback to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"Guilford was a big town in the early 1900s. At the turn of the century Guilford had the railroad, woolen mills, a newspaper, and even a cinema."