Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"A successful merchant, he was also a farmer, owner of trading vessels and a town justice. The King home, built across from the marsh, was originally…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"Broadturn Farm X During the last two decades, Scarborough continued to grow. Housing developments sprang up; large retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Shipbuilding, farming, fisheries and sawmills offered opportunities. The Nineteenth Century Seavey's Stage Coach and Four, Scarborough, ca."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"In 1988, Mariculture Products started a salmon farm that was obtained and renamed "Island Aquaculture" by a local group in 1993."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… that Libby transported over the road from his farm to market.(7) The “new” County Road, Route 22, made a direct connection to Gorham, Portland and…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… landowners after occupying and improving the farms during that time. Thomas felt that the hard-working and pious Swedish farming families would be…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3

"Some of the occupations included lumbering; farming, which included tending sheep as there were as many as 6000 sheep on Long Island a the time of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"… of 5 I was sent to live with my grandparents on a farm in Holliston, Massachusetts, I lived there until 17."

Early Maine Photography - War

"… the age of eighteen, James Davis left his family farm in Plymouth to join Company I of the Ninth Maine Regiment."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"Late in the afternoon searchers came upon a spot on Burnt Knoll, not far from the farm, where the vegetation was beginning to wilt."

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"… busy harbor and prosperous village, surrounded by farms at harvest time. Figuratively – in its depiction of an Edenic place made secure for the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"Piper search Mr. Kelleran’s farm, but to no avail. In the hopes of receiving the $20 reward posted by James Sagurs, two local men, whose names remain…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"Alfred Swenson and his wife Brita, daughter of Jons Sodergren, settled on Lot #2, the first farm in Stockholm."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"He started farm business and doing so was a very rugged man. When you ask about him most people would call him a gentle giant; he got that name…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"Additionally, many local farms were abandoned by the end of the War, by farmers, who chose to never return to Maine."

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"He hoped to make enough money to buy a farm before he went home. He reported making fifteen hundred dollars in one year alone but there is no proof…"

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

"For generations, descendants have feared to speak about what happened to their families because of the local stigma of mixed-blood and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"Web. 6 Apr. 2010. <http://steamtraction.farmcollector.com/Farm-Shows/Lombard-Steam-Log-Hauler.aspx>."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Maine State Prison

"He had left his Thomaston lime business and farm property in the hands of Captain Ballard Green and Peter H."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Thomas grew up on a farm right on the outskirts of Albion, planting and harvesting food for his community, and got a small education at the age of 13."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… go to sea for a living, time was spent clearing, farming and tending to the cattle, hogs, sheep, goats and chickens."

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"Large families were common in the mid-nineteenth century, as reflected by an ambrotype of a father, a mother, and their three sons and three…"

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

"One group of these new residents bought property on the ridge above South Street and established "Circle Farm." They grew much of their own food and…"

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"The Indians had been farming on this land for many years. They brought 20 sheep with them from Massachusetts onto the island and then they made a…"