Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)."

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

"In the 1970s, to make clear they did not want a 'nation within a nation,' leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Blaakman, Michael Albert. Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"The Grant store was a national chain specializing in merchandise under a dollar. The Grant building is brick with a front of granite and limestone in…"

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

"… in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 While national and imperial leaders were pleased with the 1842 border, local grievances persisted."

Skowhegan History House

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… Polo Team actually continued on to join the National Roller Polo League. Their names were “Billy” Leydon and Holman Dunning."

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

"… highlight Passamaquoddy and wider Wabanaki Nations’ deep knowledge of the land with European confusion, ignorance, and uncertainty."

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…"

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…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… board, and was even the president of the First National Bank of Bath. Galen Moses was also the president of the Bath Street Railroad, Bath Gas and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… to, "THE MEMORY OF HER SONS, Who Died, That the Nation Might Live.” There is also a quotation at the bottom: “The world will little note what we…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… to Ward Chipman about his meetings with First Nation people [insert links: mmn map https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/6883; pagan letter…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… Michael Gannet's son, was the co-founder of the National Geographic Society. Bath is a very historic city and should do whatever we can to hold…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… his own shipyard in 1844, and founded the first National Bank of Bath in 1861. He served as the Bank’s president until his death in 1882."

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…"

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…"

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."

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…"

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.

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…"