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Site Pages
These sites were created for each contributing partner or as part of collaborative community projects through Maine Memory. Learn about collaborative projects on MMN.
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block
"Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block Text by Alex Anderson, Justin Collander, Dylan Crowell, Matt Nelson, and Lauren Quimby 7th grade students at…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block
"Church Block Text by Colbie Holloway, Shelby Martel, Samantha Sprauge, and Caitlyn Ware 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street
"94 Front Street By Kyle Hietala The Building Front Street, in Bath, Maine has been one of the most densely packed business areas throughout the…"
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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…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall
"Davenport Memorial and City Hall Text by Rebecca Black, Christie Duffy, Courtney McKinney, and Brook Mitchell 7th grade students at Bath Middle…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History
"My great grandmother Annie died December 13, 1983 at the age of 94. She had 54 grandchildren and many great grandchildren."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's First Grist Mill
"… of wheat and corn to be milled into flour, which greatly increased the kinds of food the settlers ate, as well as allowed them to store the flour…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life
"Her middle name is from her aunt, my great great aunt. Jean has lived in Maine all her life. She lived on a farm until she graduated from high school…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - CONTACT
"… about what you have seen here? An idea for a great exhibit or addition to the website? Please contact us! BY MAIL: BIDDEFORD HERITAGE PROJECT…"
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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 2 of 2
"Print. Worster, Raymond G. Letter describing the Great Bangor Fire. Bangor, Me.: Bangor Museum and Center for History, n.d. Print. Young, John."
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"… suffering as a result of rivalries between the Great Proprietors (as the speculators became known after the American Revolution) over vague…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - You Can Get Here From There
"… exhibit was put together by the 2007 sixth grade at Mount Desert Elementary with the Great Harbor Maritime Museum. Click here to view exhibit."
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Historic Hallowell - The Union Fire Club of Hallowell, Musters, & Carnivals
"… out, making it a safer place to live and was a great organization. As for the musters and carnival, they were major forms of entertainment for the…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 3 of 3
"She eats her hotdogs and watches her grandkids and great grandkids have an awesome time just she as did when she was young."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Home
"… from the Civil War LISTEN to the memories of the Great Depression DISCOVER the life and times of Major General Henry Knox EXPERIENCE the dark…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding
"… his family history, his experiences during the Great Depression, and his enrollment in the Navy. Transcription of Clip 1: This is Aaron Maxwell at…"
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"Andrews Quarry saw great success in 1886 when James Andrews and Sons began a contract for the New York Harlem Bridge and a bridge in Philadelphia to…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction
"Welcome and Introduction The Great Harbor and mountains of Mount Desert Island. Photo by W.H. Ballard, circa 1940."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice; The Ice Storm of 1998; Ice Storm '98
"Crashing 1998 Written By Sam Gilbert Great ice, Great weight of ice, isn’t very nice. Crackle and crash, the ice comes down, down with a crash, a…"
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Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt
"… Wormell Leavitt, (Betsey Leavitt Josselyn’s great-great-great grandmother) and Mary Elizabeth Wormell Marston."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870
"… continued to build Down Easters and schooners in great numbers, employing large numbers of workers and tradesmen."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words
"The students were great; they outperformed themselves." -Raymond Gaudette, President McArthur Public Library Sally captures the action during the…"
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Historic Hallowell - The Blizzard - Works Cited
"I wish for those days of the great blizzard Kennebec Journal Central ME: 2002 Chicago Blizzard of 1979. n.d. 10 Feb."
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Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell
"thinks it is one of the worst, The Great Blizzard of 1949, also known as The Great Death Blizzard. This blizzard lasted for seven weeks."