Maine Memory Network

The General Henry Knox Museum

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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Historic Hallowell - City Marshals

"Fitz Morris was a son of William George Fish. He was born on April 17, 1873. Fitz Morris was taught in a public school in Hallowell."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"Pictured, clockwise from bottom-left: George M. Gage, Ambrose P. Kelsey, Charles C. Rounds, George C. Purington."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"… the theater was owned by Mark Tuner and George Barnes of Presque Isle, and Newell Smith and Charlie Brooks of Ashland."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Maine State Prison

"… Maine coast, the site had desirable access by the Georges River. One of its most desirable features was the presence of a limestone quarry, a…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 4 of 4

"Portland, Me., 1903. Print. Stanley, R.H. and Hall, George. Eastern Maine and the Rebellion. Bangor, Me.: R.H. Stanley and Company, 1887. Print."

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

"… corporation meeting minutes and notes recorded by George Boothby. (1870s). Scarborough Historical Society archives Cumberland County Registry of…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Anderson, Levi Morrill and George Hall, in Cumberland; and Gardiner Leighton, Fred Merrill, J. F. Mountford, Nathaniel Shurtleff, Harry Dolloff and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"The Seawind, operated by Fred Thomas and George Stanley, also supplied the island with goods from the mainland in the mid 1900s."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… State of Maine with Numerous Illustrations, by George Jones Varney, 1836-1901, B. B. Russell, 57 Cornhill, Boston, MA., 1881; History of Rumford…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… Sheriff Wingate Carr Fire at old Hampden Academy George H. Starbird Temperance Seth Merrill Tavern & Hall Thomas Greenhalgh Carltons Corner Steamer…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. (A) Folsom, George. History of Saco and Biddeford, with notices of other early settlements and of the propietary…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"… this store business and building to his brother George in 1898, who, with the help of his father moved the structure back 75 feet from the road and…"

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

"… of Collections, Abbe Museum, and Phe Crampton, George Stevens Academy. Images from the collections of the Abbe Museum and other Maine Memory…"

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"It was created by George Robinson and backed by Justin E. Smith, John P. Flagg, Eben G. Dole, C.D. Bachelder and Captain Lawson Watts."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, 1878, by George Augustus Wheeler, M.D. and Henry Warren Wheeler • The Falls: Where Farmington, Maine Began in 1776…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"… of the town, who during the American Revolution stood against the English king, George III. Back to Early Settlement Continue to The War of 1812"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"… the Carr O’Brien Block next door, location of the George's National Bank at the time. Prison Fire, Thomaston, 1923Thomaston Historical Society…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"George River. Her career was cut short by a shipwreck off Prout’s Neck only 60 days after her impressive launch."

Lincoln, Maine - About Our Project

"… Historical Society members: Jeannette King, George King, Bonnie Gray Contact the Lincoln Historical Society's president, Bonnie Gray, here."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… meeting notes and minutes were kept by George Boothby. These and other company papers, known as the “Boothby Papers”, are archived at the…"

Porter Memorial Library

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