Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"Burnham & Morrill was the first company in the United States to commercialize clamming. Its first factory began operations at the end of Seavey’s…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… Buddhists, some of whom founded the Surry Opera Company. Throughout this expansion, Surry remained relatively undeveloped and managed to maintain…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"The railroad company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Eastern Railroad, was the first link between Portland and Boston and points south."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"A Portland salvage company removed as much cargo and salvageable parts as possible, but local residents scavenged much of the Middleton’s cargo of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… and by the late 1800s five different diking companies had become involved. However, diking and development of roads and rail lines across the marsh…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… were also two mining companies, the Blue Hill Bay Company and the East Surry Company. Despite the town's many businesses however, a worldwide…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 5 of 17

"Saco Water Power Company of York Manufacturing, built the Laconia Mills on the Biddeford side of the river in 1844, then started Pepperell…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

"He sold the building and land to the B&A, who later tore down the home for the land. The first train arrived in January 1895."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… Light and Water Company, Rumford Falls Woolen Company, Rumford Falls Realty Company, and, finally, Oxford Paper Company (which was to become a…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Balloon liftoff memorial, Presque Isle, 1981

"… off from Presque Isle on August 11, 1978 and landed in France. Millie Beaulieu of the Spragueville Extension held the book."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"… to manage the state’s 175,000 acres of public land. Del was a supervisor of tree forestry for thirty-seven years."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… store run by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. By 1941, six national chain stores anchored the downtown: J. J. Newberry; F."

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Baptist Church

"In 1880, land was purchased on the corner of what is now Second and State Streets and the building known today as State Street Baptist Church was…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bethany Baptist Church

"They voted to buy the church building and the land next door from Ronald Wight. After the building was purchased, the congregation redid the basement…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Oak Hotel

"… Savings and Loan Association purchased the land and built their own building on the site. X Sources: Graves III, Richard A."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Riverside Park and Arboretum

"Years later, the skating rink moved onto land now part of Riverside Park and served by a warming hut that is now the support building."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"The present owner, Stanley Bayley, is a nephew of Paul Bayley, founder of the original company. Clam Permit, town of Scarborough…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… of the rails of the Biddeford & Saco Railroad Company to those of the Portland Railroad Company.(2) Scarborough would have trolley service at last…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"… in 1910 and re-erected in Stockholm, when the companies merged to become the Allen Quimby Company."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"The company was founded in Portland in 1872, and at one time was only one of seven such companies in the country."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3

"… student, has helped develop the Sandy River Land Trust and High Peaks Alliance and a new 45-mile Fly Rod Crosby Trail."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… had been driven off of much of their traditional land by disease, violence, and European (American and Canadian) encroachment."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"… halted, the ice was harvested by a Hampden company, Dirigo Ice Company, and shipped to cities in the south to help aid in refrigeration."

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."