Maine Memory Network

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"Even thought they had other sports, the winter ones came out on the top. New Sweden Athletic Club patch, ca."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… little is known about Jonathan Russ’s ancestry or even where he lived before coming to Farmington, Jonathan left an article that sheds light on…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"… the railroad, woolen mills, a newspaper, and even a cinema. What the town needed was a library. A Celebration on Water Street, Guilford, ca."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"Ships were sent down to Boston to collect even more clothes. All the cloth was then transported to the Crosby Paper Mill in Hampden, Maine."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"But Arnold never gave up. "…Even when everything's gone, we can't help but find food in these forests and the waters we'll cross."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… for children, a huge fireworks display, and even catered meals. The theater itself was an open air pitched roof design with a square open stage."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"… X The Portland Press Herald and the Evening Express ran a regular column on what was going on on Portland's busy working waterfront entitled…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aerial Photography

"… followed in 1925 with the purchase the Portland Evening Express, which allowed him to combine two passions: photography and aviation."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"The Portland Evening Express documented the week’s Centennial events, highlighting a plethora of activities."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"The Evening Express had the largest circulation in the city, and leveraged this by charging exorbitant advertising rates."

Historic Hallowell - Disasters - Natural and Man-made

"… in many forms: freshets, fires, tornadoes and even train wrecks. Natural disasters have plagued Hallowell throughout its history, but man-made…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 2 of 2

"Crime & Disaster This was the fourth school fire in Portland in 1921 and was of unknown origin. It started in the library, which did not have a…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… visiting aviators was always a big topic in the Evening Express and Press Herald newspapers. Guy Gannett and his father were avid aviators and…"

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"Eventually neither cars nor the plows could even drive through it. Some areas of snow measured fifteen feet in depth."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… Media From 1922 to 1945, the Portland Public Schools offered daytime "Americanization" classes for adult and school-aged immigrants."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"… million dollars of damage was cleaned up, everything went back to normal. Even though the storm is gone the memory still lives on. By Amber Bell"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"… if a wooden bridge would stand the freshets or even high water. Col. F. B. Morse who lived on the South road, came forward with the idea of a…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Fair souvenir, Farmington Public Library, 1890

"… two suppers, as well as musical programs each evening at the Music Hall. Ice cream and lemonade were served during intermission."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… pretty much listening that radio station was our evening entertainment. I think you went to bed earlier. Because it was just dark and it was cold."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Ladies' Third Annual Banquet, Farmington, 1893

"… the end of February probably everyone needed an evening to look forward to. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"… men who served in the United States military and even a few who served in the Confederate Army, we realized that the Civil War had a dramatic…"

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

"They learned poetry and performed plays. Future school teachers could begin training as school juniors. The pay, by today's standards, was low."

Guilford, Maine - WELCOME

"… here, and of the sacrifices of sweat, tears and even lives expended in the shaping and preservation of this place we call home."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase

"… for the Portland Transcript and the Boston Evening Gazette. In 1874, she moved to Portland, Maine, where she spent seven years as the literary…"