Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… reputation as one of the most fashionable resorts firmly set. In truth, a wide range of people comprised the island’s seasonal population."

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"He later joined his brothers’ shipbuilding firm and became one Bath’s wealthiest citizens. Charles Thompson of South Berwick, ca."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 12 of 13

"… can swivel on a post, the operator must keep a firm grip on it. Many heads have been bumped by a swiveling hoist."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"Prior to the 1980s, the firm had worked on close to 300 vessels. Several draggers built by the Morse Boat Building Co."

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"… to build a “model town” and engaged different firms to help lay out the lots and streets. William H. Chisholm, Rumford, ca."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"John Scales & Sons became the firm name on January 20, 1916 because that's when he bought it. Before John Scales bought the building, he opened a…"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… was probably more pronounced, considering the firm's specialties. Italian and Spanish carvers were regarded as peerless in statuary work, carrying…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"It is his family name that became firmly associated with it, right until today. Here, as was the case in other smokehouses in the area, this food…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… centered around the representation of London firms in the colonies. Because of his success, Jefferies role in the Pejepscot proprietors was most…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… was created, combining the ownership into one firm. The Draper Mill relocated and built a facility on Water Street."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… build), apprentice in the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, travel through Europe, and open his own landscape architecture…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… work which was published by the Hallowell firm of Goodale and Cheever in 1814. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody -- Hallowell Blue Stocking."

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… this position until September 16, 1955 when the firm under the name of Bradstreet Ford Sales was organized on West Broadway."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"Mr. Wilson of the firm of Braser and Wilson came here in the fall before the river froze and looked over the ground and I presume have some desirable…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… that cemented the union and started it on a firm basis.” In 1917 the Esty pipe organ was installed."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… tallow, you can make beautiful candles that are firm and excellent for use. I have composed some prayers to alter the minds of the savages."

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

"Generally the trails followed firm ground rather than a direct course, avoiding swamps and hills whenever possible."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"They are often plastered on to a mat to make them firm. Often people frame them and hang them in their house."

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

"… L.P., a private New York-based investment firm. The paper mill has existed for over a hundred years."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"… returned to Bangor, he became a partner in a law firm where he had worked for quite a while. He was also an assistant county attorney for Penobscot…"

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

"Even though there was a firm dislike of the consumption of liquor among many people in Bangor in the 1800's, it was controversial, as it was in many…"

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

"… Canning cartel: Columbian Canning and the firm of Mawhinney and Ramsdell. Perhaps Union was also."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… of war, Father Rasle urged his people to stand firm. The first attack on the village occurred when father Rasle was in the forest."