Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… the large fire originated at the Sagadahock House on the northwest corner of Front and Centre Street."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 65-83

"Coombs Eben French Court House Maine Charity School Bangor House Peter Edes Bangor-Old Town railroad Mount Hope Cemetery North Bangor (Veazie) Bangor…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"In the 1750’s the British won the third French and Indian War. The French, however, still claimed the territory east of the Penobscot River and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"The French and Indian wars were winding down. Maine’s Native Americans, the Abenakis, had been decimated by European disease."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"Columbian Block Text by Taylor Johnson, Michaela Lothrop, Paige Martin, Devon Vanmeter 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"The Railroad Station X Text by Michael Armstrong, Alexis Judkins, Emily Love, and Otto Werwaiss 7th grade students at Bath Middle School Images…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"Dreamland and Liberty Text by Frazier Metcalf and Deion Osmond 7th grade students from Bath Middle School Images from the Patten Free Library Where…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome X X What do you get when you combine local history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"The Sagadahoc County Courthouse Text by Jared Gilliam, Emily Parker, and Kaitlyn Smith 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"Lincoln Block Text by Isla Brazier, Brody Losier, Haley Scott, and Brianna Swain 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"

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

"The settlers refused to surrender the garrison, so the French tried to undermine it by tunneling underneath from the bank below."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 22-71

"… Horse racing Dramatic Club of Brownville John French George Knowles John Pomlow Electric street railroad, Bangor Col. John Black Dr."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"The church was on French Street, opposite the Hammatt Block. John D. Towle of Boston designed the Italianate structure."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… gallery vestibule of the Third Parish Church on French Street in Bangor are part of a journal that John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor wrote and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"Following the fall of French control to the British at Louisburg, Nova Scotia in 1745, the French enlisted the aid of the local Indians to help with…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… “Brule-Cote,” meaning “Burnt-hill” in his native French, presumably due to evidence of past fires on the island."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… masts, so the map makers did not want the French to find these trees if they needed masts during wartime."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"It ranges from carameled apples to great French Fries from Maine potatoes to a lobster dinner. There is something for everyone."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861

"… the following names: Robinson, McCallum, Walsh, French, E. Brown, Joshua Morton, J. O. Cushing, William Singer, Lemuel Strout, Burgess and O’Brien…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"1916Guilford Historical Society The French and Elliott Company is a building that has been changed many times throughout the years."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… Maine until the decisive defeat of the Wabanakis’ French allies in the Seven Years War (1756–1763) ended the possibility of credible Indigenous…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"… Theresa Cadillac DeGregoire, heirs to the 1691 French Grant of Mount Desert Island from King Louis XIV."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Scotch, irish, and French families migrating to town in search of work."