Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… on the island was not formed until 1792, when 15 men and women met in Southwest Harbor to form the Congregational Church of Mount Desert."

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

"This undertaking provided a necessary step to New Sweden becoming a “plantation” in 1876. Local government had been organized to conduct the affairs…"

William Fogg Public Library

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… a tightly composed group of elegantly dressed men, of whom nothing more is known than an inscription that links them to a Bath sea captain."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"Fassett trained both young men as draftsmen. From 1880 to 1884 Stevens served as Fassett’s junior partner, the position Tompson would hold from 1886…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"Local men fished through the ice for smelt in the winter, packing them with snow in boxes and shipping them by train from Ellsworth to Boston."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… was organized in 1893 and was comprised of 16 men and their equipment which consisted of linen hose, a two wheeled hose reel, and a sled for winter…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"Whaling Samantha Hallowell & Annie Wilson Men carrying a whale fin, Ragged Island, 1927Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Whaling was…"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"Three thousand five hundred men were employed in Maine's granite industry and their produce brought more than two-and-one-half million dollars to the…"

Old York Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… land by Jonathan Holman and a group of 26 men from Sutton, in Worcester County, Massachusetts."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… true that after two or three years, as the young men grew older, their scientific spirit struggled to continue amid the distractions of the social…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Stearns Lumber Company in East Hampden employed many Hampden men. From its modest beginnings in Brewer in 1836, the Stearns mill became one of…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"These were most likely the men who were in the parade in Lubec. Following the U.R.K.P. marchers were the Knights of Pythias float, Lubec Lodge…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia, Pa.: Everts & Peck, 1880. (M) Downs, Jacques M."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"In September of 1825, he and a group of other men built a dam. In the winter of 1825-26, Ira and his crew put 5,000,000 feet of pine logs in the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… the Abbott School continued to educate young men from all over the globe. The school professed to provide a sound education in the fresh air of…"

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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

"Manpower became a premium, as able bodied men were either drafted or enlisted in the armed forces. Many women were enlisted to do work in all…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"This balcony held the organ and choir so the attendants had to “about face” when there was hymn singing."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Alive with new possibilities these men began settling uninhabited areas of Western Maine. (Liberty Men and the Great Proprietors, Alan Taylor) As…"

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

"… 1897 and February, 1898 approximately one hundred men were employed in the conversion of the grist mill to a gold extraction factory."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… of the sawdust, and employed drillers, saw-men, oxen teams, and delivery people. Wars and economic times impacted New Portland as in other areas…"