Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… of 1838-39, encouraged the new Whig and Tory governments of the US and Britain to finally settle the northeastern border in 1842."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"… felt unrepresented and burdened by the distant government in Boston. As whispers of separation became louder in the late 1700s, various political…"

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

"… and Webster was later criticized for using government funds to secretly pay for pro-treaty newspaper propaganda to sway public opinion in Maine."

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

"… Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian specializing in the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St. John River Boundary survey, 1843-1844Maine Historical Society…"

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

"… Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"Constitution, local papers dedicated its commentary to national matters and suspended talk of Maine separation.[9] Despite all of this, the movement…"

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

"In 2022, I see the Federal government, much like the distant proprietors of 17th and 18th centuries, as primarily fighting to preserve its control…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"And, it’s a time when the state and local governments were wrestling with what to do about the poor people in their midst and whose responsibility it…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… homes and businesses, and creating local governments, was disrupted in the third quarter of the seventeenth century by a series of conflicts with…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"On a local level, changes in Portland city government and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan were motivated by anti-immigrant sentiments."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"… as much as the question does whether we shall be governed by foreign ideas and Policies or whether we are and will be capable of governing…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… of other official actions requesting the state government to prohibit alcoholic beverages including visiting bar owners to try to get them to stop…"

City of Portland Planning & Urban Development

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"… X X What do you get when you combine local history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath…"

Maine Department of Transportation

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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.

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"… program that promotes collaboration between local schools, historical societies, and public libraries through the exploration and celebration of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… been trademarked for its cultural, community, and local importance, while Centre Street has long been the main route for people to travel into the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"… also avoid stopping in Bath and spending money at local stores. Many large department stores left Bath for Brunswick and Cook's Corner."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"John Tucker was a local brick maker, and Captain William Patten was part of the important, ship building Patten family."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"After being forced to pay the locals for this land, some New Englanders said that “Indian deeds” were a valid form of title on their own, rather than…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… of using the site as a base for converting the local population. The French quickly abandoned the island, however, after a disastrous winter that…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… what happened to their families because of the local stigma of mixed-blood and feeble-mindedness."