Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"Blue Hill Inn construction, Blue Hill, 1892Blue Hill Historical Society The Summer Colony. The so-called rusticators came to Blue Hill's summer…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Captain John W. Kane, Blue Hill, ca. 1900Blue Hill Historical Society According to the Maine Register of 1850, there were 13 shipbuilders in Blue…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… was fixed upon in 1759 by Massachusetts Governor Thomas Pownall and he encouraged the General Court to build a fortification at the mouth of the…"

Blue Hill Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"Fish Hill is seen in the background with the Methodist Church tower seen on the left in front of the hill."

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"The site selected was a small hill not far from the Penobscot River, called Ballard Hill. The townspeople did most of the work themselves."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"… hockey tournaments, and on Pierson (or Ringdall) Hill they made the biggest ski jump. Ski Jumper, New Sweden, ca."

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

"Some of the schools include Lind Hill School, a school above the Lutheran Church, primary grades Brown School, and the High School."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… drafter of the Maine Constitution, King consulted Thomas Jefferson for guidance in its preparation. Elected Maine’s first governor, William King…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"Donnell, Frank H. Haggett, Harry E. Stetson, and Thomas W. Morse. The Alameda was in operation from 1882 until 1913."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… shipbuilding began in Bath with the expansion of Thomas Hyde’s foundry on Water Street and its incorporation as Bath Iron Works, Ltd. in 1884."

Lincoln, Maine - Roger Weatherbee of Lincoln in his P-51 H fighter plane, 1946

"… a very low altitude, with students at the Ballard Hill School being able to look right into his cockpit, he then turned the plane upside down and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"… the work of a church building began on Ballard Hill, and on Sunday of November 30th, Reverend Matthew W. Reilly celebrated the first mass."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"… forced to store artifacts in the former Ballard Hill School, and LHS meetings had to be held in the library once again."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He also built sawmills and houses for different people and organizations. This topic connects to my life because I drive by Fish Hill everyday."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… damage… Building up in the so-called Fish Hill section of Lincoln, a torrent of water swept down upon the south of the town of Lincoln, inundating…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Dist.# 9 - One of the very early school buildings was erected in the forest by the settlers in the Thomas Wright District."

Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy

"… acres of land overlooking the Penobscot River on Hill Crest, the new Mattanawcook Academy was built."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… Road, Transalpine Road, Route 2, and Fish Hill. Fox farms generally consisted of 200 foxes. Foxes were fed fish and horse meat."

Early Maine Photography - War

"… years old, he fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill and lived to be its sole survivor, dying at 105 in 1860. Charles H. Ring, Newport, ca."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… carpentry for houses and buildings from 1856 to 1871. The Weeks family resided on such Munjoy Hill streets as Beckett, Merrill, and Vesper."

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… River to the east (and a non-existent range of hills to the north).Maine Historical Society Still, separationists schemed new ways to rally…"

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

"… and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990)"

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

"… in the Revolutionary army and fought at Bunker hill and in New York. Colonel Josiah Little Josiah Little was the son of Colonel Moses and Abigail…"