Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… with Roberts building pinkey boats for local fishing and Clement making fish barrels, washtubs and pails."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"… on Mill Creek in the vicinity of the Gleason and Fish Street intersection. Lime kilns were built below the bridge on both sides of the Creek in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… across the country for its lobby, known as the "Fish Pond," were young ladies lingered, "fishing" for husbands."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… and natural resources, such as timber and fish, were abundant. William and Phoebe Royall settled on the eastern side of the Royal River."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… many of Mount Desert’s families who farmed, fished, built boats, or participated in some of all of the year around occupations, the Savages…"

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

"… place long frequented by their ancestors for fishing, hunting, and gathering. No longer able to survive solely on the old lifeways, Wabanakis now…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"… Pond by a photographer named Goodwin shows the fishing fleet in the harbor with the village beyond."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"When Captain John Smith voyaged to Monhegan on fishing excursions some nine years later, he created a map indicating the area on the Georges River as…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… Society The beginnings of a prosperous village center, referred to as Crick Village for many years, was located at Mill River with a meeting house…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… of Winter Harbor, and settlers continued to farm, fish and trade. Lady Pepperell's needle case, 1812McArthur Public Library Fighting with the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Fishing was from early on an important pursuit in Blue Hill. A packet of receipts and share certificates in the archives of the Blue Hill Historical…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… an incredibly diverse range of mammals, birds and fish, and gathered plants for food, medicine, and raw materials."

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

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

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… consisting of three or four homes and some fish stores. They then followed the trail to the last house, which was log and belonged to Mr."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"Malaga Island Archaeology Fish hook excavated on Malaga Island By Kate Philbrick, 2009 X Even though Malaga was frequently in the press, not…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"After the salmon fishing, the village would break up into bands, or groups of related families. These would disperse into their traditional hunting…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The people of the village were shot down in cold blood as they ran to the river in attempt to escape the flying bullets."

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

"… lakes and streams should be stocked with valuable fish; the increase of animals and birds encouraged; the growth of trees, shrubs, plants, ferns…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"Desert Island and the mainland. Fishing, farming, and trading were what made the communities productive throughout the late 18th and into the 19th…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… this duly and daily advertised, not only brought fish to the net of Ezekiel Goodale’s “Sign of the Bible,” but brought thoughts that breathe and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… nomadic, traveling to the coast in the summer for fishing, stopping to plant crops in fertile lands along the way."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Fishing could be found at Half Moon Pond, on local brooks and streams, and in special spots on the Swift River."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… and property damage… Building up in the so-called Fish Hill section of Lincoln, a torrent of water swept down upon the south of the town of…"