Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - WELCOME

"… Society Welcome to Guilford, a small central Maine mill town with an industrial heritage reaching back two hundred years; young, as far as towns…"

Guilford, Maine - CONTACT US

"… Historical Society is our meeting place for the Maine Community Heritage Project and will be a continuing team effort to update our Guilford…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors

"… History of Lincoln, Maine: a Look at the People, Businesses and Industries That Helped Build a Town on the Banks of the Penobscot."

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"… Society Description This view of Main Street in Lincoln looking south shows some of the stately old buildings that once adorned Main…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"… for a man named Ira Fish in 1826 in the lumbering business. Ira ended up selling Jacob land where he built a house in the mid-1830s."

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"… the House of Crafts and Flowers still is in good business today. Everyday when I drive by, there are vehicles parked in front of it."

Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"is one of the founding fathers of Guilford, Maine. Robert Herring Sr. and Robert Herring Jr. were the the other two founders. In 1803 Robert Low Jr."

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

""Local Business & Industry." The Pictorial History of Lincoln, Maine. Lincoln: Lincoln News Print Services Division, 1995. 39-40. Print."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"#4 In 1947 the Maine State Legislature passed a law intending to create regional high schools. Superintendent Frank Kent placed the wheels in motion…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"The booming businesses in Stockholm relied on the train to transport manufactured goods out to market. New Sweden AVR Station, ca."

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"Horace Weatherbee ran the store until1967, when it closed. The Weatherbee's had many loyal customers throughout their many years in business."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… have better roads, better government, and better businesses for the town to earn money. Another feeling was pride because not many small towns had…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… the rail, the mill wouldn't have developed and businesses wouldn't have been attracted to the town."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"… History of Lincoln, Maine: a Look at the People, Businesses and Industries That Helped Build a Town on the Banks of the Penobscot."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 1 of 3

"The Braeburn Hotel had been many different businesses over the years, including a post office. The Braeburn, in 2003, was used as an apartment…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… still in Lincoln, they would be a river tour business and would be no longer used for the transport of goods, but for the tourism of people on the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… if Line 21 called Line 51, and Line 51 was busy, then operators had to wait until Line 51 was clean, then call Line 21 back and connect the call…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… was one-and-one-half stories and it opened for business in 1901. The store was named the Anderson Brothers Store, but everyone knew it as the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"Eugene continued the business up until his death in 1956. His son John and his wife continued the business after."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… the 1850s it was said that the smoked herring business employed every male resident over the age of 10 in the Washington County town of Lubec.”…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… fire during a wild snowstorm in ’69, and five businesses were wiped out, yet it seemed not a beat was skipped."

Lincoln, Maine - Welcome

"… you for visiting the Lincoln section of the MCHP Maine Memory Network website. We trust that you will enjoy browsing through the exhibits, most of…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"• Sardine plants in Maine dwindled from 48 to 15 1976 • Completion of school additions to create a single complex – Lubec Consolidated School 1977 •…"