Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"When his only remaining brother Jacob was lost at sea in 1876, Charles sold the farm to Abbie A. Curtis Dolloff, the wife of Oscar Fitzland Dolloff."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… of 52 Blue Hill ship captains of the era, went to sea at 18 years of age and worked his way up to commanding clipper ships carrying gold…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… in hard times Swan’s Islanders turned to the sea to make ends meet—fishing for their family’s food and for profit."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"—(LI) O’Leary, W.M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890, 1996. Rowe, W.H."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"After joining the US Navy as a Sea Bee during World War II, Donald met and married Marguerite Hodgkins in 1946."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… settlers scraped a living from the soil and the sea. Here you will still find a community of a different nature, where even strangers wave to each…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"He settled in California where he transported freight up the Sacramento River. At some point, he came back to Farmington where he settled in the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… he married Ellen Maria Marston, daughter of the sea captain Levi Marston. The couple lived in Massachusetts for a time, but James's ill…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… sailed on the tide down the Kennebec River to the sea. During the years of the Embargo Act, this waterway was of little use for trade, but the road…"