Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… who came from established towns with roads and shops to a densely forested coastline with no roads and no people was perhaps the same spirit that…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… in 1900, was a group of local business men, farmers, and horsemen. They were once referred to as “promoters of clean sport”."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… had only a small number of stores at which to shop. The many families did not have enough houses to live in."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… witnessed in all my day. I had read and heard of men going above the clouds, I now had the reality before me and I made a vow that from that day…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"He decided to fight along side grown men, as well as his father, Thomas S. Libby, in the Civil War. This proves he is brave because not many boys…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… I would be nervous if I was a wife to one of the men that went to the war. I would not know if my husband would come back fine, if he would be…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel

"There were men and some women of all sizes! Some were only 3 feet tall and some were over 7 feet tall! The manager introduced us."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"… of the monument says: “Erected in honor of the men of Lincoln who served their country in the war which preserved the Union, destroyed slavery and…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Memorial Library 1960 • The Lobster Trap Gift Shop opens – first gift shop catering to tourists 1962 • Roosevelt International Bridge opens…"

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

"… by 1810, and there was a wheelwright shop, a shoe shop, a blacksmith shop, a schoolhouse, and eleven homes. West vs."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"These malls gave Bangor citizens up-to-date shopping facilities with plenty of parking; shoppers, though, began to neglect downtown."

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

"Perspectives on Labor Old Gun Rock Can Shop, Lubec, ca. 1900Lubec Historical Society This can shop on Water Street was part of the Gun Rock…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Russell Estes and Brothers Box Shop, Farmington, 1903Farmington Historical Society As Farmington entered the 20th Century, most of the amenities…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… bustling with stores and liveries and carpenter shops to support those hotels and their tourists. Local carpenters and shipbuilders and local…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"This new building was home to a large shop, a home economics laboratory, a science laboratory, and three additional classrooms."

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

"… shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses. John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the Great Works in the West Village…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… town in search of work and, with money to spend, shopped at the growing number of stores on Water Street."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… of Route 4 North (Main Street) and Box Shop Hill Road. His home is one of many that was built prior to 1800 and still stands as a testament to the…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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