Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"Beatrice Stockbridge, Swan's Island, ca. 1950Swan's Island Historical Society Stock for the stores would arrive by boat."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"1940Swan's Island Historical Society 253 Harbor Road is now known best as the popular Swan's Island Tea Room, but it once served as a home for…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The McCormick house

"… the home of Theo McCormick, who moved to Swan's Island with her late husband Stephen McCormick, the longtime radio and television broadcaster who…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"The island harbors were shaped by fishing, with boat building, cooper’s shops, processing plants, and chandleries."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3

"Long Island is 4 and 1/2 miles long and 2 miles wide. In 1768 the island had a sawmill, and settlement began by 1779."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"… Blue Hill Bay there still sits an island called Long Island that was once a thriving community but now is void of anyone."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3

"Long Island: The Forgotten Community Brown & McAllister Granite Quarry, Blue Hill Bay, ca. 1890Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"On January 12, 1789, Long Island, 700 Acre Island, Job’s Island, and the Lime Islands were incorporated under the name of Islesborough (spelling…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"District Number Two was located on the southern part of the island, called Dark Harbor School. Number Three was the Creek School located near Mill…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Early island contractors and builders were responsible for erecting the large summer homes for wealthy summer residents, who spent two to three…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… years, no private vehicles were seen on the island. However, on March 17 of 1933, amidst much controversy between the summer and year-round…"

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

"Croix River (as well as its source), and deciding how to follow the long St. John (Wolostoq) River and its tributaries, which was made especially…"

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

"… future commissions on the political fate of the islands in the bay would similarly focus on the correct interpretations of seventeenth- and early…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… nor from fishing for our own provision so long as no damage shall be to the English Fishery."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"The coast is dotted by small, rocky islands and beaches, graceful dunes, and lush marshlands. Two long thin fingers of land create a large, naturally…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… Noyes grumbled that “there is not one of them but what think their Right superior to the Proprietors and have a long time bid Defiance.”"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"Proprietors who held onto their company shares long enough—however small—received significant landholdings."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"The maps instead reveal a long, and more complex, history of resistance, displacement and return. Settlers, including the Pejepscot and Kennebec…"

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

"… and Canada was created by human actions over a long period of time and was not formed by a natural or organic process."

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

"… of Maine is much like the local settlers from long ago—fighting both Federal authority over their lands (although the state, like the local…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… and others—so our responsibilities to these places remain ever-present, even though for non-Natives it may seem like long ago, or irrelevant."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… resource to users unable to physically visit MHS but will also ensure its long‐term preservation by limiting onsite use to the digital surrogates."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… Francis Joseph Neptune became famous for his long shot during the Battle of the Rim in Machias, turning the tide of the war in this area."