Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… well as admission to a destination that promised “good, healthy amusement for all” in a glorious natural setting."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… merchant is? A merchant is a buyer or seller for goods for profit, like one who carries on a trade. Merchants are usually operators of stores."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The yard goods sold at the store he operated at Newbury Neck came from Boston, New York and other ports in ships which Coggins owned."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"… relied on the train to transport manufactured goods out to market. New Sweden AVR Station, ca."

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

"After tramping about in nature, they desired good dining and entertainment, followed by the comfort of a real bed."

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

"This may have been a good suggestion. As time would pass and practical needs would change, A.C. Savage and family would move many structures around…"

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"… and canvas bags to provide for the removal of goods at fires. As technology evolved pumping devices, known as "hand tubs", were created which were…"

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… is in the old fire house, and it is still in good working condition. As of 2011, it is 177 years old."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… pass this way but once! If therefore there is any Good which I may do any Happiness I may give or Gladness I can create, let me do it now, for I…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"… in local agriculture and were supplying food and goods. Farmington men who received the Deferred Classification designation included: Warren Ames…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… the natural meadows, wide intervale and good hunting and fishing that the region offered. The party canoed up the Kennebec River as far as…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… and streams gave early settlers drinking water, a good source of food, power for mills, and ease of transportation and shipping."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"And Calvin London, a good man giving his time to the kids as in preceding years, with his dinghy and its outboard motor."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"They served pasta and other good Italian food. Hartt’s Restaurant “served the best pizza you could ever imagine.” It had a soda fountain, and jukebox."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"and Snow, Ralph Linwood, 1988, “Maine Odyssey: Good Times and Hard Times in Bath, 1936-1986.” Owen, Henry Wilson, 1936, “The Edward Clarence Plummer…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Funeral

"Recipients of these goods, noted on the accounting, included Mr. Gleason, Captain Vose, Miss Caroline (Knox’s youngest daughter), Captain Fales (for…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford

"Write often and send my love to the family. Your good friend, Trent Gunner Gunboat Kennebec Thomaston Historical Society Thomaston…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"… of their work and their dedication to doing a good job." -Renée DesRoberts, Archivist Back to About Us Mrs."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"There was still a good deal of agricultural activity going on in the area, but new industries taking advantage of the river and the sea were starting…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… of the City Farm worked the land and produced goods and produce sold in town to earn their place."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"… 1909McArthur Public Library Lumber and other goods from the interior came down the river where they were readied for sale throughout the colonies…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"… Maine were lower, people who would have made a good living in manufacturing were underemployed and working poor, and those who were able to get an…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"By skill and good fortune they learned to stay buoyant through wind and tide and taught the following generations how to maneuver safely along the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"It is also the home of the so called “wicked good beef jerky.” At this time Thomas and Andrea Gilbert and their children Trey Gilbert and Ellie…"