Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"He was in the middle of eight siblings. Growing up on a farm he had his own pony named Scout that he broke himself."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"… in the potato fields when she was about seven or eight years old. At that age she would pick about a barrel of potatoes a day, but as she got older…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 1 of 4

"Glenna was born in Masardis, ME, growing up with eight brothers and sisters. When she was five years old, she started going to the Masardis School…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Sylvia lived to 102, eight days before her 103rd birthday. Stephen Stanislaus was born to the Penobscot tribe in Mattawamkeag in 1831 by his mother…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"Founded July 1919 – eight months before the 19th Amendment allocated voting rights for many American women – its mission then and now is to develop…"

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

"… and a short wine velvet basque adorned with eight round silk thread covered buttons. The collection includes a variety of 1880s bustle dresses with…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"This terrible beauty helped everyone move through eight days of terrible. Written By Nat Crocker THE ICE STORM OF 1998 In 1998 an ice storm hit…"

Penobscot Marine Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… Island Maine through seven generations (going on eight) and for over 200 years. Each generation has developed, used and changed the land, natural…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"… is the appearance to one at sea, as of seven or eight mountains extending along near each other. The summit of the most of them is destitute of…"

Historic Hallowell - The Hallowell Union Fire Club

"At the age of seventy-eight, Benjamin Page died in Hallowell on October 28, 1824. . His house is still standing on 81 Second Street in Hallowell…"

Historic Hallowell - City Marshals

"… in 1888 that he and his officers made forty eight arrests: twenty one Drunk arrests, five arrests on people that had no home and went from place to…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"At that time, it had eight rooms, four bedrooms and one bath. It was heated by oil and an old-fashioned wood stove despite the two fireplaces, and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry

"… Society The business employed seven or eight islanders full time and up to a dozen part time."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"The eight original Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded Brunswick and Topsham, and spent the next few decades struggling to recruit…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"In the Kennebec Proprietors, someone who held eight out of the available 192 portions was considered to have a single share, worth approximately £216…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Eight islanders were committed to the then-called Maine School for the Feeble-Minded. The remaining islanders faired as best they could after moving…"

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"He and his wife, Polly, raised eight children. He was a great man because he went through war playing the drums and then taking care of his wife and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church

"… in 1836, the Society formed a church by admitting eight members to fellowship, six of which were women."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village Schools

"… school registers 25 students (seventeen boys and eight girls) were listed. Grade 4 had seven students. Grade 5 had nine students."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"I would have been eight or ten years old at the time. The mind dims as to the actual year. From the backyard of our home on Short Wharf, I heard some…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… "containing in breadth by the sea four miles, and eight miles up to the mainland." The interior lands were referred to at that time as east or west…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"… and building alike as the water rose to levels of eight feet within the plant. Not defeated, however, they missed only three shipping days and…"

Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"got this warrant for Guilford to be on maps. Eight years later Guilford was better than ever and the year was only 1820."