Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… Desert Island, to settle conflicting claims to land ownership.Mount Desert Island Historical Society After the Revolutionary War, on February 17…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Everyone cleared land and planted fruit trees and grew vegetables. They hunted. They made their clothing at home, beginning with raising the sheep…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… the Vaughan Stream, and where the Hallowell boat landing is today. They served as the holding place of the ice before they went to other states or…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… the Vaughan Stream, and where the Hallowell boat landing is today. They served as the holding place of the ice before they went to other states or…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… storage for summer use was prevalent through the land. In Hallowell the Moore family operated and ice business for several generations."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… first car-load of timber for the new depot was landed upon the grounds of the Railroad Company, in this village."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"The land was purchased from Hiram and Betsey Pease for the sum of $125.00, April 28, 1885. One source states that in September 1839, Reverend E.S."

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

"… Mile Brook (Carrabassett River) searching for land suitable to build homes for their families. Samuel chose an intervale in Embden."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The potentials of the land attracted early settlers. The soil was rich and well drained; abundant forests spread over the landscape; smaller water…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… Exploration, culture, and cartography in the land of Norumbega. Ed. Emerson W. Baker et als. Lincoln, Ne.: Universtiy of Nebraska Press, 1994."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… was a member of the FIFTH Amphibious Corps that landed under withering fire and participated in the successful assault on Mount Suribachi where…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"… wood from the forest, and to have extra farming land. They chose Lincoln for all of those reasons."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"… be moved from its location at the high school to land across from the library that had been donated by Eastern Fine Paper Company in 1947."

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"… a trustee, the town treasurer, a town agent, a land owner, a collector of taxes, and a constable in Lincoln’s early years."

Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors

"… build it in the current location because the land was not theirs. Instead, they built it on West Broadway."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… of the railroad in Lincoln started in 1852, when land was bought to construct a railroad. The construction started in 1864, and ended in 1868."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"Ira ended up selling Jacob land where he built a house in the mid-1830s. We know this house today as the Corro House, located on West Broadway where…"

Seashore Trolley Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"… Strong was incorporated in 1801 as a tract of land rectangular in shape, seven miles, 94 rods long, by four miles, 256 rods wide."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… a local business owner, donated a parcel of land on Upper Main Street, which was more than adequate for a school."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… and the Quarry Wharf became a social center at landing time when islanders gathered to exchange news and goods."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Walker, Jr., and his associates, to settle a land controversy in Concord, New Hampshire. The first settlers to the region were Jonathan Keyes and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… named after homesteaders who settled the hilly land. Science Hill, however, was so-called because of the many creative inventors who seemed to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… for fishing, stopping to plant crops in fertile lands along the way. In the fall they would go north, stopping to harvest crops, then going on to…"