Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy

"Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy 3-masted schooner towed by tug boat in Saco River, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… Memorial Library Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca. 1884Abbe Museum Mount Desert Island began to change both culturally and geographically…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"1884Abbe Museum The most detailed descriptions of canoeing with Frank Loring and his son Mitchell come from the letters of Caroline Briggs, a…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Dirigo Writing Book, Farmington, 1887

"… for Common Schools" was published in Portland by Loring, Short, and Harmon--Booksellers and Stationers in Portland."

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

"“Historical Sketch of the Loring Family,” In: Corliss, Augustus W. (ed.) Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, Vol. 6, no. 3 (July 1, 1882), 878."

Western Maine Cultural Alliance

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Robert A. Frost Memorial Library

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Biddeford's Movers & Shakers

"… often hear these names in family stories or local lore, and it is assumed that at one point, they were famous within the community."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy Stories

"… at Mercy Hospital during WWII A story by Roberta Loring Working at Mercy, a generational experience A Story by Carolyn Bridges My work…"

Oakfield Historical Society

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Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine

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Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"The furnace was located in the basement of Loring, Short & Harmon stationary store, at 474 Congress St., where they both worked. Ms."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"According to family lore, John was a sailor who came to New England from Glasgow, Scotland at the age of 14, landing in Salem, Massachusetts."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… hunting including Penobscots Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, Joe Francis, Mitchell Francis, and Newell Mitchell, along with Passamaquoddies Wallace…"

Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"Wormell, died in 1862. She was the first wife of Loring Leavitt who later married Wealthy Ellen after Selinda’s death."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"Cunningham, Lewis L. Partridge, Elliott W. Loring, Frank E. Vaughan, Gilbert Eustis, Alton B. Tucker, Henry E. Mayo, H A Durrell, Austin T."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… have generously shared information about the old lore of the land. Dance Program for the Second Holman Reunion, Dixfield Centre, 1902Dixfield…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"Less military in appearance is Private Loring Marriner of Gardiner, who served with Second Maine Cavalry."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"… This particular building designed by Charles Loring, is a mix of Classical Revival, Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Loring Kimball’s father’s fascinating old marine store, near the cove at the South of the present wharf, smelling of all tarry seafaring things…”…"

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

"… the village center is The Lane, leading to the Loring family's Skyline Farm, one of North Yarmouth's farmsteads where acres of cultivated fields…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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