Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"The settlement was named Dunstan, a corruption of the name Dunster, the Algers' home in England. Massachusetts Bay Charter of Scarborough and…"

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

"The name Abenaki has an Algonquian root, meaning "people from the east." Settlement patterns suggest a rather fluid arrangement for the Eastern…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… frequented this region of Maine prior to the Indian Wars of 1725-26. The Malecite were known for their skill in dealing with the salt-water…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… named Byron it was called Skillertown, a name the Indians had called it. It became incorporated in 1833 and was renamed Byron after the well known…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"… message T-shirts, pants for women, cheap flowing Indian print skirts and caftans, exotic ethnic garments collected on trips to the far-east, and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"In 1780, an Indian named Pierpole moved to the area that is now Strong. His wife was Hannah Susup, and they had six children: Molly Pierpole, Molly…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"What is most interesting is that he trades with “Indians”. One page shows the name ‘Pierpole’ and another entry shows the name ‘Plosway’ and ‘Plosway…"

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

"… the 1750’s the British won the third French and Indian War. The French, however, still claimed the territory east of the Penobscot River and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"He came to Lincoln when he was 44 years old. He was the oldest of nine kids. His brother’s names were: Samuel, Jonathan, Nicholas, David, and William."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… Jane, daughter of the Sagamore of Owascoag, the Indian's name for Scarborough. Richard King, Robert Southgate, and Philip Haigis arrived in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… was little to support the theory that any band of Indians had ever been indigenous to Aroostook County, except perhaps after 1790 when white…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… Kennebec was a throughfare for traveling bands of Indians, including the Abenaki tribe of Algonquins."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"A majority finally won out and they hoisted sail, turning eastward, settling in in Ellsworth, and leaving as their legacy the name “Contention Cove.”…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Township) was visited by the Anasagunticook Indians for the purposes of fishing salmon at the “Great Falls.” There is little evidence that there…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… Harbor to Northeast Harbor to see the Pemetic Indians take on Gilman at Neighborhood House. They would journey to Bar Harbor to see their town’s…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… pioneers had seen hard service in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, had been inured to hardship, toil, and poverty, and fully realized…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… and succotash and pemmican (no hide) were popular Indian dishes. After construction of crude log shacks, the people soon built good frame houses."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… granted to them for service in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution. Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… The first “roads” were not really roads but Indian footpaths through the woods. Generally the trails followed firm ground rather than a direct…"

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

"… from David Hutchins were a group of Norridgewock Indians, led by Chief Pierpole. The records show that the few interactions between the two groups…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… paddle up the Penobscot River, walk the ancient Indian footpaths while fording the streams, or trek beside ox-drawn wagons over river ice."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"He was credited with having secured the neutrality of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians despite British efforts to enlist their support…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763 brought a brief era of peace to the region. Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the…"