Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after him. In Samuel Wasson's Journal of East Surry, he attributes Jonathan Flye, an…"

Surry by the Bay - Welcome

"Surry middle level students and teachers, in partnership with the Surry Historical Society and other community members, have spent much of the…"

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"Another time middle school students worked with teacher Elizabeth Ehrlenbach to research, create a sell a Surry history trivia game."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Captain Benjamin Church arrived in Penobscot Bay with a company of men and landed on what came to be known as 700 Acre Island, a small island near…"

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

"… rivers, ponds, lakes and long tidal estuaries and bays. This was a ready-made transportation system for settlers who were not about to spend energy…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… eight and nine merged into the "head of the bay district" in 1848. Like other schoolhouses, in the earlier years the school had had a wide age…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… same quarry at Mussel Ridge Islands in Penobscot Bay. The architectural style of the 2.5 story building is Italianate. The roof is a hipped roof."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"It has a wooden bay window that was added in 1909, and the bricks that make up the outer facade are painted green, yellow, and tan."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"King's Highway MarkerCumberland Historical Society English Settlers Arrive In the mid-1630s William Royall moved to the Casco Bay region from Salem…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… all the way up Washington Street is Merrymeeting Bay, and much of residential Bath. X Out of all of these historical objects, people, and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Chase, Georgiana. Stratton's Islands of Saco Bay, An Interwoven History 1605-1993. Fort Bragg, CA: Mendocino Lithographers. Gold, Susan Dudley, ed."

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

"… the weather would permit a sail boat to cross the bay Later they were carried daily The department established a mail route and paid the mail…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Chief Francis Joseph Neptune was stuck in the middle of this battle of words for an invisible line. The Treaty of Ghent 1815 was drafted to determine…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Massachusetts Bay Charter of Scarborough and Falmouth becoming a town in 1658Scarborough Historical Society & Museum The question of title to the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"The Bay of Fundy, the Maine coast, and even the Gulf of St. Lawrence were fishing grounds for the rest of the season."

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… worked in the quarry on Dix Island, in Penobscot Bay, off Rockland He was thought to have come to Hallowell with Bodwell in 1872."

Cumberland Historical Society

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Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… passengers and freight were ferried across the bay to Eastport to board steamships bound for New Brunswick or Portland and Boston."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… to the Kennebec River and down to Merrymeeting Bay to their homes. For the next five years the settlers continued to prepare their lots for their…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Now he is dead at aged seventeen The finest bay we have ever seen. We’ll miss this wonder of the track Would give our all to have him back."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… roamed the wilds of this region from Merrymeeting Bay to Moosehead Lake in peace and security. Their cruel and tragic end was a bitter irony…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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