Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Telephone communication

"Stinson in Swan's Island Village, had a telephone line between their stores so they could talk to each other."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Caring For Our Families and Friends

"She also served as a representative of the Village of Atlantic on the Committee for Health and Sanitation for many years starting in the early 1950s."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"… building constructed around 1905 in Swan’s Island village. From the waterfront, the hall stood out tall against the horizon, as can be seen from…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"Seaside Hall in Atlantic village, Swan's Island, ca. 1925Swan's Island Historical Society Seaside Hall's location on the shore proved to be…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… Streets, on top of the hill which surmounts the village area of Lubec, was home to Lubec School for about a century."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… Historical Society Bridge construction and village streets, Lubec, 1962 Lubec Historical Society But for the roadway most bridgework was…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… after the war, increasing the contact between the villages on the island. Swan’s Island cars were often patched-together machines that were…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… out livings as farmers too, but they also hunted, fished and worked as stone-cutters. Toddy Pond itself was not a pond, but rather a river valley…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"Book 100, page 571. Domingue, Robert. The Village of Cockell: An Illustrated History of Pine Point, Maine. Wilmington, MA: Hampshire Press, 1988."

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

"… 1 not far from the Willowdale area was the Danish Village, an authentic copy of the Danish village Ribe."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… Berwick, Maine, and they scoped out the area on fishing and trading expeditions, as was true for Matthew Patten."

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

"… in Scarborough remaining a town of separate villages, each with its own church and school. Dunstan and Portland were connected by a road inland…"

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… the years it produced lumber, barrel staves, and fish boxes. Its products were sold locally and loaded on ships for use in other ports."

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

"The extremely popular “Indian Village,” hosted by members by members of the Wabanaki community at Deering Oaks was a crowd and media favorite."

Caribou Public Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"Foremost, of course, were lobsters, but other fishermen still pursued fin fish. If the island's seagoing tradition had diminished, the summer…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"White was an inmate of Letchworth Village, a mental institution, where Kirby was an orderly. White ran away from the institution, and shortly…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"Most of the settlers were employed farming, fishing or both. Some traded with the native populations, and there was a carpenter and a few mechanics…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… of refrigeration on vessels, Maine's fishing villages hosted the fishermen who caught the fish, the processors who dried, salted or otherwise…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… along the Saco River for thousands of years - fishing its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding

"… men with ability built small vessels for fishing soon after they arrived in the area. While there are references to early shipyards and builders…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"They were able to go night fishing with birch bark torches. The children would hunt sea birds and spear crabs and lobsters."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… consisting of three or four homes and some fish stores. They then followed the trail to the last house, then followed a west-north-west compass…"

Rockland Historical Society

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