Maine Memory Network

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

"… barrel near the doorway, and we kids would often run down from the schoolhouse at recess to buy one of those big sour cucumber pickles, a penny…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… project but it was mainly because the project was running extremely smoothly by this point. He had installed all the modifications that needed to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… Americans”, who seem to think the occasion to “run riot over the Common, yelling lustily”. “This must not occur again”."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"WIFE- I lived in St. George and we didn’t have running water or bathrooms or anything. Before I was 25 I had had 5 children."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"In 1962 the railroad running through Guilford was torn up. In Guilford today part of the railroad is now the Guilford Memorial River Walk."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… the extension of this new county road that would run north from North Yarmouth to Hallowell, a road to be known as the Hallowell Road."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"It consisted of a double wooden track running from behind the school down to and across the brook; the little cars ran by gravity."

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

"… their time to help The Packet get up and running. It continues to serve as the town's journal of record."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… occasion they were serenaded back to their state-run hotel where Soviet citizens were not allowed to join them in their rooms."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… the Aroostook Valley Railroad made its inaugural run between Presque Isle and Washburn. The line originally ran 10.8 miles from Presque Isle to…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Bangor soldiers saw action at Bull Run, Manassas, Antietam, Port Hudson, Irish Bend, Fredericksburg, and Cold Harbor among others."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"As well as running a successful grocery business, Chase was an inventor. He developed several systems to store food cold, making him one of Bath's…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… businesses went looking for a new place to run their shops and businesses. Front Street, Bath, ca."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"This was possibly used to help run-away slaves hide and escape from those trying to capture them so they could then make their way to Canada."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"The towns had two lines running through them. The earliest, the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, had opened in 1848 and later became the Grand…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… his brother had become sick, and he was forced to run the family farm while his father and mother took care of his brother."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… and Bath’s first self-serve grocery store run by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company."

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

"In 1932, the New Portland Lions Club took over running the fair. Using the profits from the fair, the Lions help elderly people by sending fruit…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… of Lincoln, inundating stretches of the highway running to Enfield, washed out many acres of crops and caused widespread damage to private gardens…"

Bangor Public Library

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