Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… Camp of Maine 4th Near Bottoms Bridge Eight Miles from Richmond May 27, 1862 Friend Marietta Camp of ME 4th Near Bottoms Bridge Eight miles from…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Later shipments included eight columns 28 feet long for the Dutch Reformed Church in New York, stone for a bridge in St."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"and Emily Savage who had eight children of their own. In early years from approximately 1855-1869, A.C., at times alongside his father John II, made…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"… were informed that they had been chosen as one of eight schools in the state to participate in the Maine Community Heritage Project."

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

"About eight years later, the couple got back together when their daughter was thirteen. Shep moved his family briefly to Chicago, but came back to…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"It was a four-story building containing eight rooms in which the men slept on the floor. There was little light."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… lumber was being sawn to build ships, the first eight feet of mud in the inner harbor is mostly sawdust washed into it from the sawmills."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… to include students in grades five through eight, where they attended until the opening of the Blue Hill Consolidated School in 1939."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… established their own separate parish, and, eight years later, incorporated as a distinct town."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… an actual decline in six of Maine's eight coastal counties. Lumberman, Patten, c.1900Patten Lumbermen's Museum Industries responsible for…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"They cost about eight dollars apiece! That was a lot of money in the 1800s. The traps were an investment made by the trappers who found a great…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"In 1918, teachers in charge of all eight grades, earned $10 a week, and they usually boarded with a local family."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"In about eight years the family returned to Patten's Bay where Donnivan settled on Lot # 26. In March 1791, Andrew was chosen first juror from Surry…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… to midnight six days a week, performing sometimes eight shows a week. They were kept busy learning lines, building sets, sewing costumes and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… Hartford to build a stone wall 100 rods long in eight weeks for $100. With his earnings he bought a pair of oxen for $50 and sold them for $55."

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… to undertake a research trip to visit the state’s eight women’s shelters, as well as welfare offices and hubs of other services."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"When he died at the age of seventy-eight, in the fifty-third year of his professorship, the college estimated that he had taught more than two…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… to Create a Master Race, 2003, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York. Bruinius, Harry, Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Eight hotels were built. They included the Asticou Inn (1883), Indian Head (1887), Kimball House (1886), Rock End Hotel (1884), Roberts House (1883)…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"There were 29 people that were killed. Eight of which were in Maine. Some have said this has been one of Maine’s worst hurricanes since it has caused…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… became interested in the area and in 1781 eight families spent their first winter in the new settlement."

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

"“When Lubec Was Number Eight”, Lubec Herald articles transcribed by Vicki Reynolds Schad, (published during 1930s and 1940s). Stephen Bobrovnikoff"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… with a branch spread of approximately twenty-eight feet. The weight of tree was estimated to exceed three tons."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"Butler. The house was originally painted eight different colors. Shoreacre has changed over time and become significantly bigger."