Maine Memory Network

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."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"… one degree or another, the pervasive influence of French designer Dior's 1947 revolutionary "New Look" with its extravagant long, very full skirts."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"… one-piece muslin gowns such as those favored by French Queen Marie Antoinette and her circle as an alternate to the extravagant excess of required…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"… unusually slim silhouette called cuirasse (a French word meaning close fitting, like armor), of which the collection includes a very fine example."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3

"… is reminiscent of a 1946 afternoon dress by French designer Jacques Griff. Norman Norell evening dress, ca."

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…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… Hill and burning the residences along Center and French Streets through the evening and into the long night of April 30th."

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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… tanner and a farmer, and his wife, Harriet Leslie French. His attendance at the Maine Normal School lasted only two years."

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."

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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."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"In 1763 the French and Indian Wars ended with the Paris Peace Treaty which ensured the safety of settlers from attack."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"The first French explorers described the people of the region as Etchemin. This term probably included the current Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1940 to Present Day

"… Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire and Queen Anne examples, most of which have had little exterior alterations and all…"

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."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

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

Early Maine Photography - Art

"1855Maine Historical Society When the French artist Louis Daguerre announced his invention of photography in January 1839, painter Paul Delaroche…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"… which also reflects aspects of the influential French designer Paul Poiret’s work. Esther Johnston McDonald's tube skirted, black lace dinner gown…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… conflict, and negotiation among Wabanaki, French, Acadian, British, and US individuals and groups over several centuries."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"As Loron wrote in 1725, with the help of a French Jesuit priest, “Here lies my distinction—my Indian distinction."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"He watched the French and British come to the village and talk about war, trade and alliances. When Francis was a young man, his father Chief Jean…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"French & Elliott Company, Masonic Hall, Odd Fellows Hall, Guilford, 1916Guilford Historical Society They had built it as a meeting place and had a…"