Maine Memory Network

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

"Sale and division to heirs of the original proprietors meant that by 1750, both the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors consisted of numerous men and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook GP-38, Presque Isle, 1991

"… purchased from General Motors Electro-motive Division (EMD), was delivered in September 1967. The engine sports the paint scheme developed in the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"… part of the pilot phase of what would become the Maine Community Heritage Project of the Maine Historical Society."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"About the Maine Community Heritage Project (MCHP) The Maine Community Heritage Project (MCHP), a partnership between the Maine Historical Society and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction

"… Desert Island, as seen through the lens of the Maine Memory Network, has been a work in progress since 2006, when a first group of high school…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"Prins, Downeast Press, 2009. Canoe Indians of Down East Maine, by William H. Haviland, The History Press, 2012."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Source Materials

"… and co-author of Savage Family sections of the Maine Community Heritage Project / Maine Memory Network for proofreading draft text, providing…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"Civil War James Parker, Artificer, First Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, ca. 1863Mount Desert Island Historical Society Soon something much…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"The Wabanaki or Dawnland People* had lived in Maine for thousands of years, successfully surviving as migratory hunters, fishers, and gatherers."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… and view up to Asticou from Northeast Harbor Maine ca. 1890Northeast Harbor Library Text by Samuel Savage McGee, April 2013 Images from the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… Harbor Cottage at Asticou Northeast Harbor Maine ca. 1880Northeast Harbor Library Shortly after A.C."

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

"Parties wishing to Hunt or Camp in Maine can secure an Excellent Guide by addressing Joe Pierpoll, Princeton, Maine, the best Indian guide in the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"… have been a landmark to voyagers for 10,000 years.Maine Historical Society Text by Gunnar Hansen, adapted by Tim Garrity Mount Desert Island has…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"… and Taylor Thomas-Marsh Nestled alongside Maine's central coast, the small island of Mount Desert has been a celebrated destination for vacationers…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"Richard eventually sold the main family home Hilltop House to help fund his college and post-graduate education and the college education of his…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… hill to Forest Hill Cemetery, Northeast Harbor Maine – Savages seem to be always on the move, dead or alive! (Forest Hill Cemetery was created in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"… The island's growing popularity raised concern, mainly among summer people, about over-development. Many felt that this unique place needed…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… times was the ice industry, which had started in Maine 100 years earlier and peaked in the late 1900s, when Mainers shipped a million tons of ice…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"From this island to the main land on the north, the distance is less than a hundred paces. It is very high, and notched in places, so that there is…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"1930 Bar Harbor, as it appeared in 1930.Maine Historical Society Islanders still fished, but instead of sailing to Labrador, they stayed more local."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… at Hilltop House, Asticou, Northeast Harbor Maine, 1933Northeast Harbor Library The Big Barn, Asticou Way, Northeast Harbor, Maine ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"They were truly "summering" in Maine. Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905Mount Desert Island Historical Society Somesville was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"… built 535, about 40 percent of all those built in Maine for the war effort. Belmont Hotel after the Fire of 1947Bar Harbor Historical Society…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… from the collections of the Abbe Museum and other Maine Memory Network partners. In the latter half of the 1800s, Mount Desert Islanders marked the…"