Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… army and fought at Bunker hill and in New York. Colonel Josiah Little Josiah Little was the son of Colonel Moses and Abigail Little and born on…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"9 East Rumford, No. 12 Red Hill, and No. 13 Isthmus. Stephens High School State Champions, Rumford, 1913Greater Rumford Area Historical Society…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"As reported in The New York Times: “In a thick fog the Eastern Steamboat Company’s steamer Cumberland and the United Fruit Company’s steamer Admiral…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… New Hampshire, Vermont, and Northern New York, which included the Rumford Falls Paper Company."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Acts from Boston and New York were presented and included magicians, dancers, singers, musical vaudeville, acrobats and aerialists, slapstick comedy…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"West vs. East In the mid 1800s both Walnut Hill and East North Yarmouth, four miles apart, were equally busy."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… homes in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, and particularly Pennsylvania and Ohio."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… an office in the Empire State Building in New York City to further market the ever increasing fabric offerings."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"Lillian Whitmarsh of New York made the town a present of her stone summer residence to be remodeled and used as a consolidated school."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York and to Europe. So they built their own ships."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… to ship goods to other cities like Boston or New York City and return with goods from those who traded with them."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… as he accepted a professorship in western New York. George M. Gage, one of the Principal's assistants in the School's first year, succeeded Mr."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field Book. New York: Harper Brothers, 1896. Print. Scott, Geraldin Tidd."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Tracy, a New York lawyer, brought his family and their friends, 27 in all, for a whole month. Though other prominent visitors had visited the island…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… the journey from Maine and down into New York in a letter to his father back home. Once in Washington, the 1st Maine performed guard duty in…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"He died at the age of 77, and is buried in the East New Portland Cemetery. Daniel Witham Abbott was born on April 26th, 1845; he was the son of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… Fulton Redman, spent most of the year in New York and summers in Bar Harbor. He was also an avid supporter of the Ku Klux Klan."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Industry Julius Wolff, a food broker from New York, arrived on the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay in 1875 attracted by the abundance of small herring…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… to some of the wealthiest families in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. These families put up summer “cottages,” mansions that rivaled…"