Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… shore, landing for our geological discoveries even as old Champlain may have landed for his geography, and returning to our vessel at night."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… the larger smokehouses of the sort Hall saw, for even in the 1890s, there were a few of this size. Looking into McCurdy’s in 1986 Jacob B."

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Mrs. Park sat up in the evening; Mrs. White came and watched. Carrie so sick and suffering so much. We sent for Dr. B.; she died at one."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"As the fire spread towards Bangor High School, the principal and several students rescued 19 typewriters and all of the school’s trophies before the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… saw NBA, minor league, college and high school basketball, high school and college graduations, fairs fair events circuses, concerts, ice shows…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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

"… Rumford Publishing Co, Inc., 1972 and Josten’s Printing and Publishing, Topeka, KS, 2000; Rumford Falls Times Lewiston Evening Journal"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"… was coming down hard in downtown Bangor on the evening of March 20, 1902. The townspeople had been experiencing unseasonably warm, wet weather for…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2

"… to cure as many patients as possible, this led to even more publicity for the new hospital. It really started becoming popular in the early 1900s."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… people think of the village as a whole, even though some residents live in the Town of Wilton (Franklin County), while others live in Dixfield…"

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

"2017. "Temperance movement." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 May. 2017…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… people willing to invest their life savings and even mortgage homes to become participants in this scheme? The Lubec Herald followed the progress…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"He was even in the silver and coal mining business in Maine. In 1880, Curtis was in the farming business near Gothenburg, Nebraska."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Doughty School; and Priscilla Soucie, School Library Media Specialist, William S. Cohen School Howard House, Bangor, 1869Bangor Public Library…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"And far cooler, for even the Rhode Island and Maine shores offered limited respite during August heat. The Roosevelt family felt no need for a bridge."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… In the old days of the Lighthouse Service, and even during Coast Guard aegis from 1939, keepers hosted the occasional tourists up the tower."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… commerce, as a watery road to the interior, or even as a barrier to land transportation, the Kennebec River played a central role in shaping the…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… prospered as well, with some sardine canneries even operating herring smokehouses. American Can Company, Lubec, ca."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… is difficult to judge what exactly was going on even using the Zoom feature. Perhaps lids were being pressed onto the filled cans waiting on trays…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Colby College Special Collections

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