Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Past meets Present I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Self Determination What strikes me as similar between the past and contemporary times is not only that we—as…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective What is not questioned, it seems, in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is…"

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

"Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies Later Proprietors, Heirs and Assignees Colonel Moses Little Moses Little was born on May 8, 1724, the son of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866 Map of lots on Maquoit & Merriconeeg, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society Coll."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Sketch of Isle St. Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune Essay by Donald Soctomah Description of Pagan and Chipman’s Meetings with Francis Joseph…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… Transportation) began life as the Penobscot and Kennebec that was chartered the 5th of April 1845."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… the headwaters of the Connecticut River to the Kennebec. Years later their efforts turned into the Coos Road, running from northern Vermont down…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"It bought Greenville Branch, as well as Kennebec Trust Company in July of 1923. They had numerous amounts of money coming in and out of the bank, so…"

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

"Quoted in an article in the Kennebec Journal Dr. Lehman said, “Ninety-nine percent of the violins made in America at the turn of the century were…"

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

"… Abenaki, who farmed the fertile plains of the Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers, and spread out along lands west of Casco Bay in small family and…"

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

"3, First Range North of Plymouth Claim, West of Kennebec River (T3 R1 NPC WKR). As settlers moved to the area, it became known as Middletown and…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"… would also go onto purchase Augusta newspaper the Kennebec Journal. Guy Gannett’s only printing experience came from working for his father…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… War II Nurse from Maine Subject of New Book.” Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, 20 June 2015…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… an easy canoe trip from Norridgewock on the Maine Kennebec.” (History of Farmington Maine From Its Settlement to 1846, Thomas Parker) The…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"The Man from East Corinth. Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal Print Shop, 1941. Heseltine, Charles D. and Robertson, Edwin B. Aroostook Valley Railroad."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… fled northward and enlarged villages on the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers. The first cornfields at Meductic (south of present day Woodstock, New…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… and Breadth of Maine, by Stanley Bearce Attwood, printed by the Kennebec Journal Print Shop, Augusta, Maine, no date listed; pages 27 and 218."

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

"… goods and produce and sailed on the tide down the Kennebec River to the sea. During the years of the Embargo Act, this waterway was of little use…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… early settlers were a brave bunch, coming up the Kennebec River and over land by foot or horse through unsettled areas following the trails of…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.