Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… survive solely on the old lifeways, Wabanakis now marketed their traditional arts, crafts, and canoeing skills to rusticators who visited their…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… barber shop operated by Lyman Haskell and a fish market operated by Dan McEachern and Nick Stanley. The photography shop of Isaac T."

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

"… to send lumber along to the Penobscot River to market. In order to take lumber from both mills down the river, they had to be assembled into rafts."

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

"… public and private education, a cooperative food market, a rebirth of local farming, two historical societies, a music lending library, and myriad…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… prosperity for many who sent their surplus to markets outside of the area. Settled in 1780, the pioneers planted corn, potatoes and turnips to get…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… the 1870s, but those that remained found a steady market for wooden schooners in the ice and coal trade."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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