Maine Memory Network

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

"New Portland is a tract of land six miles square, whose center is about five minutes south of the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Early Settlement With its 95 miles of shoreline, fresh and tidal wetlands, and waters teeming with herring, pollock and shellfish the area drew its…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… is long and narrow, approximately fourteen miles long and varying between three miles at its widest point and a few yards at the Narrows, depending…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"It is about 35 miles west of Augusta. He lived to be 82 years of age, dying on July fourth, 1809 in Bangor, Maine."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"In John S.C. Abbott’s History of Maine, Farmington was touted as a community that “deserves rather special notice."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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