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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.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Hall, Oliver L. The Man from East Corinth. Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal Print Shop, 1941. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_R_Gould"