Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… the next year more than half of all able-bodied men were in the armed services, and at the end of the war 1,000 men had gone off to fight."

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…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"Generations of men and women have worked the sea to support their families. And as gravestones through Mt. Desert show – many were lost at sea."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house

"… last Atlantic Postmaster was Debbie Staples, who worked there from 1990 to 1995. Maynard and Ethel's son, Donald 'Donnie' Staples, once kept…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"He worked on the island as a mackerel seiner and was the captain of several schooners. Mackerel fishing declined in the late 1800s, and Smith may…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming

"Farm animals were needed to do the heavy work such as plowing and also as transport of people from one part of the island to another."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"Before World War II, most of the men in Hampden still worked within the town’s boundaries. With only a few exceptions, virtually all of the people…"

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…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"… As we looked at the lists of the hundreds of men who served in the United States military and even a few who served in the Confederate Army, we…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"That winter, the men cut 5,000,000 board feet of lumber from the land where Mattanawcook Lake would eventually be, enough to run the three saws in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"1890 Men at work in Hall Quarry. Stone from Mount Desert Island was loaded directly onto boats in the deep water of Somes Sound and shipped to cities…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… residents as people left for the mainland to seek work. Swan’s Island adapted to the economic and social presence of seasonal residents."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"If one of the men needed a rowboat to go to his home at Morgan's Bay or East Blue Hill over a weekend, he was charged fifty cents for the same."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… for them." There is little doubt that to these men and women the mill work they had previously performed for Pepperell and Laconia was seen as a…"

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."

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"In 1822, a group of young men in Hallowell, anxious to improve their minds, organized the Franklin Debating Society."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"… The photograph on page 10 that shows two young men loading a potato truck was taken on the Myron Gartley Farm in Presque Isle in 1976, about the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Wharf, Store and Blacksmith Shop

"… while he was building Montpelier, so the two men had a long standing work relationship. Vose operated the store on the wharf until near his death…"

Presque Isle Air Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… its population, than Rumford, and none had more men killed in action or died from wounds.” Rumford sent men to World War I, World War II, the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"The men showed the animals, while the women showed off their handiwork. The Court House was used for the ladies reception and exhibition of foods…"

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

"After the end of the war, though, the men returned home to their jobs in the mills and back to regular production."

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"There were 18,000 men that were in the battle. Towards the end of the battle, the Union was only left with 2,200 men."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"McClench had worked at Eagle Iron Works in Hallowell. In 1886, the building and company were handed over to Samuel R. Payson of Boston."