Maine Memory Network

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"Malaga Island. The people who lived there a hundred years ago were the concubines of sea captains and their offspring!” Needless to say, everyone in…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"… marriage license, Swan's Island, 1910Swan's Island Historical Society One family story involves Laura Turner, an island girl who married Dana…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Spurling's Store, Swan's Island, ca. 1925Swan's Island Historical Society Island stores received regular supplies from the mainland, and as many as…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"The interior of the main house has been greatly improved. It now contains, on the first floor, a handsome reception hall, a library, and a parlor or…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"… Harbor’s economy was not immune from the Great depression. Numerous hotels closed and only three remained open by 1940."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The island switchboard was located in the rear of the Dark Harbor Post Office from 1902 to c. 1915. The switchboard moved to a small house on…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"District Number Two was located on the southern part of the island, called Dark Harbor School. Number Three was the Creek School located near Mill…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Several island ladies have shown great skill in making quilts with intricate designs and patterns. Each year the annual quilt show brings island…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"Croix Island) and Robert Pagan deposition. This relied on information shared by Passamaquoddy knowledge keepers."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"In 1738 Georgetown was enlarged by the addition of Parkers Island (the current Georgetown), Phippsburg, Woolwich and the area now known as Bath and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"Watts focused his attention on Arrowsic Island and the improvement and fortification of the land. He died in 1717 in Maine."

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

"… suffering as a result of rivalries between the Great Proprietors (as the speculators became known after the American Revolution) over vague…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… also granite from the same quarry at Mussel Ridge Islands in Penobscot Bay. The architectural style of the 2.5 story building is Italianate."

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

"… of Paris was written in 1783 ending the War with Great Britain which recognized the United States. After the Revolutionary War dignitaries visited…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… Bay, in which “Blind Joan” appeared along with “Great Agumagus” or Moxus, a Kennebec River leader, and Sheepscot John, a Wabanaki leader on the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… state government itself began to compete with the great proprietors. From the 1780s into the early nineteenth century, it sold millions of acres to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… requires grappling with the vast legacy of the great land companies like the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"Exploring survey, St. Croix River to Great Waggansis, 1817Maine Historical Society Growing border tension and violence from 1827 to 1841, especially…"

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

"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."

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

"… Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Home of John Moreland Cummings, Richmond's Island, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society An ambrotype of Richmond’s Island in Cape Elizabeth shows the…"