Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the Kennebec Proprietors claimed and sold large tracts of land…"

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"Joesph and his family came by boat up the Kennebec River. Then they got to a spot where it was too shallow to go on by boat, so they started to cut a…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"These men were to get to Quebec by following the Kennebec river upstream. Someone informed George Washington that the only way to travel on the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… the Civil War - 1861 to 1900 Only the gunboat “Kennebec,” built by John Hilt, was launched in Thomaston during 1861 to serve in the US Navy."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Bennett, Black robe on the Kennebec by Mary R. Calvert, and Dawn Over the Kennebec by Mary R. Calvert."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"… Island Skowhegan dam X Fishing on the Kennebec X by Kate Hodgdon, Scott Clarke, and Gus Hoy Skowhegan Island has been a good, solid…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… holdings: the Plymouth Company, also known as the Kennebec Proprietors (Coll. 60), the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll. 61), and the Barclay (Coll."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"Just as the large manuscript collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region…"

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…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… and projects dovetailed with the work of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s National Main Street Program."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"For example, it has been the home of Kennebec Kitchens, Bartlett Design Co. , Chapman and Drake Insurance, Edward Jones Investments, and Spencer Gray…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"The Plymouth Company records—also known as the Kennebec Proprietors (Coll. 60), the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick papers—referred to as…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"The neighboring building housed the Kennebec Fruit Company, and F. and E. Reed Insurance. George Davenport's brokerage business was at 55 Front…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"John Patten was the President of The Portland and Kennebec Railroad. John Patten had the idea and was also was the main builder for this project of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… Sagadahoc Bridge now acts as the way to cross the Kennebec River by car, foot, or bicycle. In over 200 years at this intersection, time has never…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 2 of 2

"… their own photographers, as well as those of the Kennebec Journal. Aerial photography enhanced the public’s ability to witness the devastation…"

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

"… own terms, even with the recognized fact that our Nations pre-date the creation all the European nations and the United States."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…"

Margaret Chase Smith Library

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Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"At a time of national crisis with Britain, it was a burden to the national government and potentially hazardous to attempt a separation."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"… images from the Patten Free Library First National Bank of Bath postcard, ca. 1913Patten Free Library The Lincoln Block, located at 52, 54…"

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

"… making speeches, writing letters to state, national, and international authorities, and sometimes this took the form of open protest along major…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"… Memory Network, the Maine Historical Society’s nationally recognized statewide digital museum. The Maine Memory Network features a constantly…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… expansionist republic implicated notions of national honor and the United States’ legitimacy on the world stage."