Maine Memory Network

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

"… and imports, intended to punish the British and French and to force them to respect the authority of the newly formed American nation."

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

"Many of these new people were French or English from the St. John Valley, eastern Canada, or southern Maine."

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

"The people that came to Stockholm were mainly French-Canadian, Swedish, or from the southern parts of Maine."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"French & Elliott Company, Masonic Hall, Odd Fellows Hall, Guilford, 1916Guilford Historical Society Meeting at the Guilford Odd Fellows Hall…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"During work on the French filmmaking pioneer Maurice Tourneur's movie Woman (1918), John van den Broeck, a 23-year-old Dutch cinematographer, slipped…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Named for the French physicist and mathematician August Fresnel (fray-NEL), the 62-inch high third order cylindrical lens efficiently focuses light…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… masts, so the map makers did not want the French to find these trees if they needed masts during wartime."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"Words and photographs of Hugh French and his students in the early Eighties, and of Frank Van Riper in the early Nineties showed how traditional the…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Indians forced north into eastern Maine during French and Indian War 1755 • British deport Acadians to Maine and other New England communities 1775…"

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

"Their favorites were french fries, hot dogs and beans, the man who brought fresh cheese, and a guy from Farmington, Ray Magnum, who brought chocolate…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"French, Hugh T., “Smokehouse: Last of a Breed”, Salt, No. 28, October, 1986. Gilman, John, Canned: A History of the Sardine Industry, Part I, John…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"After confiscating a large quantity of beaver and moose pelts, Church and his men sailed away, and the recorded history of Islesboro (called Longue…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

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

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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