Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… Guilford where they soon expanded their product line to include tongue depressors, candy and ice cream sticks, meat skewers, wrapped ice cream…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… becoming well known for their Moosehead Blanket line. In the flood April of 1923, water overflowed the concrete abutments, rushed around the side…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Its Westerly line was that dividing Mexico from New Pennacook and the Androscoggin River. A unanimous vote was taken on July 26, 1819, on the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… market for fresh fish, and the expansion of rail lines resulted in a greater distribution of product."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Years ago, one of the homes was built with the county line running through the livingroom. Whenever East Dixfield is mentioned, people think of the…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"As a result of the expansion a telephone line, bridge over the canal and a steam launch, named The Gold Bug, were constructed."

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

"… further north marks the Maine Central Railroad line. In 1911, the MCRR track that went through Walnut Hill Village was rerouted to here, thus…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Rumford Falls Railroad, or all those stagecoach lines that used to run hither and thither? What was it really like in the spring when the mighty…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… would have been built near the Dixfield town line, in the area known previously as Holmantown. The school was a mile from Dixfield Village on the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Mall on West Main Street

"It was later set off by fencing and lined with trees by William Keith and other civic-minded citizens, and has since been known as the Mall on West…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"It was said that the lines of clothing, hardware, shoes, and ship chandlery were the best east of Bangor. Lubec stores seemed primitive by comparison."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… first on the high land just across the New Sweden line. Stockholm’s population reached 66 by 1890. By 1895 the Swedish Colony’s population had…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… and east to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with steamboat lines which also included the major lines on the St. Lawrence River."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"No. 11 Paper Machine was installed and brought on line in 1924. By 1930, 30 years since its beginning, the Rumford Mill was the country's leading…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The workers are lined up on each side of the bench with individual stoves for heating their soldering iron."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"No. 15 Paper Machine would come on line in August 1980. These added paper production capabilities were necessary to bolster all other operations."

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

"A few years later in 1820 Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a state and agreed to continue the Treaty obligations set in the 1794 treaty…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"Aurania, Cunard Line, ca. 1900New Sweden Historical Society The population of New Sweden had grown to 553 by the end of 1871, an increase of almost…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"A new water treatment plant, with major supply lines and many miles of stainless steel pipe, was installed to deliver the purest of waters to all…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and poorly understood region."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… he went on numerous patrols in front of the lines and succeeded in destroying several machine guns and killing numerous enemy riflemen."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… English-speaking farmer-settlers on the front lines of 'making a new country.' More recent scholarship like that from Brooks, Saxine, Montgomery…"

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

"Canned goods from S.S. Pierce lined the shelves, and they carried nearly everything on could think of."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… did everything: skinning, gutting, boxing and weighing, from start to finish. As usual in a traditional industry, there was no assembly line."