Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… firemen's muster and parade, Portland, 1846Maine Historical Society The Maine Historical Society Collection includes several major examples of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"… would cut the seed potatoes in the potato house. The seeds were potatoes from the year before."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - JP Cilley Ledger From Post

"§ Participated in the Battle of White House Landing May 30, 1864. § Participated in the Battle of Cold Harbor June 3, 1864."

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum Neighborhood houses and community halls had popped up in almost every village."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"We know this house today as the Corro House, located on West Broadway where the Lincoln Historical Society is."

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"1961Surry Historical Society Surry Historical Society Established in the 1980s, the Surry Historical Society maintains an active presence in the…"

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

"In the fall of 1870, settlers sided the houses with planks, hewed the logs flat on the inside and filled the chinks with moss to reduce draughts, and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"Bohndell House, Water Street, Thomaston, Maine 2008Thomaston Historical Society <-Prev. Page…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… wood structure with a stable, and Thomaston Bank, housed in a granite building, joined several small dry goods stores."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Also, during this period, the Fire House was constructed (1903), The Neighborhood House (1906) and the Northeast Harbor Library and Reading Room…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"Coming of the Swedes Re-enactmentNew Sweden Historical Society One of the first pieces of business once the Swedes arrived was to assign families to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"The next year he opened the Deering House, Bar Harbor's second hotel. And so that small cluster of houses started its transformation, too."

Camden Public Library

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Margaret Chase Smith Library

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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… In 1795, an East Surry schoolmaster went from log house to log house teaching the pupils one-on-one to know the letters and to say the catechism."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"Sloops transported several Scotch-Irish settlers and their cattle to populate the area, and they were housed in thirty log cabins constructed between…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"His 1930 reconstruction of the William P. Viles House in Augusta was inspired by the classicism of the American Greek Revival style."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"The Historical Society is also home to a comprehensive collection of the Maine Woodsman and Phillips Phonograph publications."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row Street for their workers' families, a stable and two barns."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"… Historical Society was given use of the area that housed the library. The building is used in the summer by church work groups that come to the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Cunningham School

"The site has been sold and is now a residential housing development. It has been named Franklin Place in honor of the site’s history."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"… in the yard with everyone who would come to their house. As far as sports were concerned, there was only softball after school between the kids…"