Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… Cemetery, Brooksville, Maine Hymnals of Phoebe Fowler (found in house attic in 1984) Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth 1890 Maine Census Index of Civil…"

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… In 1795, an East Surry schoolmaster went from log house to log house teaching the pupils one-on-one to know the letters and to say the catechism."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… settle 60 Protestant families, build 60 dwelling-houses and a meeting-house, and settle a minister within six years, or failing this, by March…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… building, and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills."

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"… moved to its present site on the Surry Road) houses its collections, including a detailed, handwritten twentieth century census, photographs…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… welcomed by delegates of Maine officials and housed in Nowick’s old cow barn converted for the special guests."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… homeowners dumped rubbish in back of their houses. Searching those individual dumps would frequently result in a gold mine find of old metal…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"He then married Dorcas Fowler on February 25, 1813. • Where were the places that Aaron went that had some importance to him? He was born in Sutton…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… under construction at the canal, former site of Fowler's Plaster Mill. Hundreds of workers, many of them Italian immigrants who had been working on…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… dug and plaster mills constructed where Jeremiah Fowler employed 125 men. Plaster was a highly sought commodity used to lime farm fields and finish…"