Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Scarborough's extensive salt marsh and rivers served as boundaries separating settlements that sprang up around their perimeters."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"We have primarily used the uncatalogued but extensive Savage family private collections of original correspondence, photographs, maps, written and…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"The length and breadth of the boat was such that extensive renovations had to be done to the ferry docks on Islesboro and Lincolnville at the cost of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"In 1975, a brick extension was added to the east side. The current building is made of brick on a granite foundation and is notable for its granite…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"Paine did an extensive business in the lumber trade between here and Liverpool and other foreign ports, his ships returning with salt, coal, dry…"

Wilson Museum

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Old York Historical Society

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Thomaston Historical Society

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Penobscot Marine Museum

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Davistown Museum

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Windham Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"MHS’ early photography collection offers extensive insight into the history of the state of Maine, as well as to the development of photography as a…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"He made an extensive photographic record of Lewiston architecture, using his pictures in lectures and publications to promote awareness of the city’s…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Involving extensive physical labor indoors and out-of-doors, women’s daily work included gardening, dairying, food preparation, spinning, weaving…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"This extension opened in 1873. By 1884, in an economic downturn, Eastern Railroad branches and leased roads were leased to the Boston & Maine…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… of the large plants at Reef Point (including the extensive collection of rhodora) and incorporated the Farrand collection into his visions for the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"… team met a number of times to begin planning this extensive project that would eventually involve approximately 60 seventh graders in the creation…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… the first story and probably the roof has been extensively altered. In 1979-80, the street facade was remodeled to fit the nineteenth- century…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… PLEASE NOTE: The Biddeford Heritage Project made extensive use of the local newspaper, in its many incarnations, in researching for the Narrative…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"Rufus was a prominent opponent of the extension of slavery in the colonies. Rufus King relocated to New York City two years after his 1786 marriage…"

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

"… your petitioners to the necessity of extensive travel, some of them at least a distance of nine miles to attend a town meeting, and perform the…"

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Maine State Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"It was enlarged in 1969 by the addition of a new extension on the rear of the facility. The ethnic composition of the Town of Rumford was also…"