Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Green's Department Store

"In 1910, Green bought the Fred Porter Store. The old building was lost to a fire in the year 1912. Maurice Klein, from New York, rebuilt the building…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Fox farms were a very large business. Fox farms were like having a farm with all kinds of animals on it."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Green Acres with Keepers Lodge, Farmington, ca. 1890 This was Harold Titcomb's home in Farmington on Orchard Street. The house still stands."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Munsungan Lake and quarried high quality red, green, and gray chert (flint) which they used to make beautifully crafted “fluted” spear points."

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… the beginning of the Pageant, decorators spread a green dye on the ground to give the Ellipse a “fresh” look."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Bob Marley

"Marley played an ignorant yet comical Detective Greenly. Marley and the cast mostly filmed in Boston, Massachusetts and one time in Ontario, Canada."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"This green space became known as Meeting House Park. (And now you know that Church Street is named for John Church and not the North Church at the…"

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

"Green (brothers) and found the property was not yielding a profitable investment. It was suggested as a logical site for a prison."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… first settlers of Byron were Samuel Knapp, Jonas Green, James Bawn, John Thomas, J. Stockbridge, Richard Morrell, and Abraham Reed."

Windham Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… are the seasonal weather conditions, mosquitoes, green-headed flies and midges that bother diggers on the flats."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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