Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… parcels from the Gutch Estate, establishing homes and businesses, and creating local governments, was disrupted in the third quarter of the…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"When he turned 21, Hannibal left his home to study the law at the offices of Fessenden and Dubois, under Samuel C."

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

"… roads to remote areas; instead, they made their homes close to water routes. However as population grew and shoreline timber was depleted, it…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… for their very existence on land they had called home so many decades before the coming of the white man."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"At home, he was given the enormous task of reducing the Defense budget by tens of millions of dollars."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Guilford was home to the largest fair in Piscataquis County. The date of the first Guilford Fair is uncertain but appears to have been some time in…"

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

"A survey of the Colony in 1873 found that a population of 600 had cleared 1500 acres of land and built 130 homes and nearly 130 barns."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… yet in place; visitors still boarded in private homes and arrived by water. Travel around the island was by water or rickety “buckboard” carriages…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… to spend more time at his family’s new summer home in Northeast Harbor (which Charles encouraged his father to build), apprentice in the landscape…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They hunted. They made their clothing at home, beginning with raising the sheep and then weaving the wool."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"In 1772, the first white settlement homes were built on or near the island. The welcoming of houses brought the rapid growth of mills."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… under the name “Rising Virtue” and held at the home of Jesse Libby in October, 1802, but was moved to Bangor in 1808."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… and reports from the area stated that twenty new homes had been built with plans for more to come. The settlement of the boundary, coupled with the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"Another person from Bath who wrote letters to home was William H. Fog. In one of his letters he talks about how he was taken prisoner and sent to a…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… to stop the destruction of a Catholic family's home. With his brother, William Moses, they both became wealthy business men who financed: the Bank…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… wood, the rock, the teams, the hay, the wood for home consumption, the care of the buildings, and everything for the care and promotion of my…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"Most of the churches and homes that were destroyed along French, Park and Center Streets were rebuilt, along with a synagogue on Center Street."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… died at the age of eighty on March 24, 1976 in his Searsport home. He is still remembered to this very day for stopping the Brady Gang in 1937."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"Three of the letters he wrote home to his mother survive in the collection of the Bangor Museum and History Center."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"(T) "A Timeline of Native American Culture." Home: The story of Maine. Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Web. 1 Jan 2010."

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"Kneisel had a home in Blue Hill and came up every summer. Eventually he started bringing some of his students up to Blue Hill, and other members of…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Meet Blue Hill's Project Team

"… minister at Blue Hill, and to preserve his home and belongings and artifacts of the period in which he lived in order that his life may serve as an…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… a parade and special events to remember their accomplishments. Guilford Sesquicentennial Memorabilia X Modern History 1966 to Present HOME"