Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"… was thought to provide browsing capability and improved access, and while misguided from a modern perspective, met the immediate needs of a…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3

"We have had great deal of improvement in our school; we now have a middle school team and we have a Pirate Recreation program that starts our little…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"… Cottage was laboriously and lovingly restored and improved in the first decade of the 21st century and remains one of the very attractive…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Play golf or tennis at the Kebo Club? Join the Improved Order of Red Men Society? Visit the Wabanaki encampment and meet real Indians? Mount…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"… local churches, the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Association trails, and the Northeast Harbor Public Library."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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

"A Civic Improvement Committee worked with a Boston consultant to make recommendations to rebuild and improve the city."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"A Central Sterile Supply using gas sterilized 1,000 thermometers per day (before the advent of disposable covers)."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"Train service improved greatly and long waits for automobile ferries disappeared. Passenger and freight train traffic increased enough to justify the…"

Old York Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"This was partly due to town road improvements, which eliminated the need to close school for up to five weeks during “mud” season."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… focused his attention on Arrowsic Island and the improvement and fortification of the land. He died in 1717 in Maine."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"Freight service consisted on one train a day every day covering the entire route. Trains frequently consisted on 20 cars each during the winter…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… the south side mill and continued to make improvements, becoming well known for their Moosehead Blanket line."

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"… could be if there was a new car out that was more improved than the cars in Lincoln, the town might want to get one of these cars."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"A visitor in 1792 reported that in one day he saw five ships in Eden, one headed to London, another to Santo Domingo and three to Boston."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… Lubec, 1911Lubec Historical Society The I.O.R.M (Improved Order of Red Men) Band marched, followed by the Eastport High School Cadets, and as…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"The ferry is still used, but it also has greatly improved as it holds more weight than the ferries. One example is the ferry at Woods Hole…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"Jeremy Nelson has changed and improved many people’s lives. I can connect my life with Jeremy Nelson because my mother is a teacher, I am a student…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"If they were able to improve the lots and keep them occupied for five years, they received an additional lot of 100 or 120 acres in the interior back…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"The next year he improved, but his cattle suffered from a disease known as murrain, and his stock dwindled considerably."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"The interior of the main house has been greatly improved. It now contains, on the first floor, a handsome reception hall, a library, and a parlor or…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"When not practicing law he found time to make improvements upon Franklin’s stove and to produce Morgan’s Grammar of the English Language, a highly…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"Also left behind was example of an “improved” item, a wheeled cart. For although the process remained traditional, and so did key tools and…"