Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Founding Fathers & Early History

"… SELF-EXPRESSIVE (taking a non-traditional, often artistic, approach to a topic). The responses reflect a variety of perspectives on the topic—all…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry SHIPBUILDING AND SEAFARERS OF BLUE HILL by Nicholas Niehoff, Grade 8, Blue Hill Consolidated School…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery

"Looking for the Lost Cemetery By Rick Sawyer How can an entire cemetery disappear? It would seem that it couldn't, but then where is it? The first…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… members had their portraits painted by Famed artist John Singleton Copley, who perhaps uncoincidentally was allegedly indebted to Gardiner for a…"

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

"Long Island: The Forgotten Community Samuel Carter Homestead, Blue Hill, 1891Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc."

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."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"A growing community of artists and entrepreneurs are breathing new life into the downtown, and hope to transform it back into the lively neighborhood…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… Society SECTION NOTATIONS: N - NARRATIVE A - ARTISTS & INVENTORS C - CIVIL WAR M - MOVERS & SHAKERS S - SHIPBUILDING T - THURSDAY CLUB Annual…"

Davistown Museum

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 12 of 17

"… 5th Maine Infantry, 6th Maine Infantry, 7th Maine Infantry 8th Main Infantry, 9th Maine Infantry, 10th Maine Infantry, 12th Maine Infantry, 13th…"

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

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Westbrook Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… the world. Inventors, Designers, Musicians, and Artists Leonard Atwood 1852-1902: "Father of the Skyscraper;" inventor of the elevator (sold his…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks

"… England And of course, the amazing staff at the Maine Community Heritage Project and the Maine Memory Network--Larissa, Kathy, Fran, Rachel…"

Norridgewock Historical Society

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - CONTACT

"… HERITAGE PROJECT c/o McArthur Public Library 270 Main Street Biddeford, Maine 04005 U.S.A. BY EMAIL: reference@mcarthur.lib.me.us *Please include…"

Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Norcross Heritage Trust

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"In the urban areas of Maine, ethnic tensions and nativist hatreds rose through the 1920's, and in 1924 the Ku Klux Klan claimed 50,000 members in…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"The French called the ethnic group of southwestern Maine “Armouchiquois“, but the tribes often referred to themselves by their family band name."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 11 of 17

"… called nationally for volunteers, requiring Maine to raise one regiment of infantry for three months of Federal service."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"… Historical Society During the Civil War, Maine laborers worked in logging, milling, papermaking, built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… By 1910 Biddeford was the 4th largest city in Maine. Biddeford's ethnic make-up was diverse and urbane, and the city's residents included business…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 14 of 17

"… & Saco During the Civil War, the State of Maine provided aid to the families of soldiers. In 1862, 257 families were supported."