Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Traveling was still very rough in our region throughout the 19th century. The creation and condition of our roads and their constant maintenance was…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"… of a happening from my early days on Short Wharf Road. It was not an event that shaped town history and probably not more than a half dozen people…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… the Penobscot River and on the west by the Main Road (Rout 1A). Hampden’s development between 1800 and 1920 is dramatically represented by the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… sports, do band and chorus, so I am always on the road. My mom is a nursing student, works, and takes care of my littler sister."

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… the past and in the present" My uncle worked as a road constructor and he worked there for a while and then bought his own property, named his own…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"… Farming in Maine has been a rough and rocky road. Almost four centuries ago, settlers from Europe began coming to the region that is now Maine."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths of a mile, cost 10 cents and included free admission."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"… but what a place once it is done.” Across the road from the Wharff house is the Valley Grange Hall and seen through the back kitchen window, the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… we have ambulances that have certain rights on roads that allow them to get to patients quicker. These are some ways early hospitals and modern…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

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

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"… river from Lincoln to Chester (like the Access Road bridge) is much larger and holds much more weight, such as big trucks and car carriers, woods…"

Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church

"It is located at the intersection of Lee Road and Main Street. A major event about this church was that Isaac Burton donated a clock for the front of…"

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"Strong currents swept debris through the road and around houses. The athletic field was covered with several feet of rushing water."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"At the corner of Elm Street West and the Main Road, Crosby and Stetson built a large brick warehouse (Hampden Historical Society 1976)."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… of School Street and North Main Street across the road from the Town Hall andd Fire Station. Today it is operating as the United Methodist Church…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"If it was deep in the forest, roads were needed to be built. Then a group of year-round loggers arrived and built the camps out of logs (surprise!)."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"At the corner of Elm Street West and the Main Road, Crosby and Stetson built a large brick warehouse (Hampden Historical Society 1976)."

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

"Eliphalet Greely, born on Greely Road in Cumberland in 1784, was president of Casco National Bank for 33 years and mayor of Portland for ten years."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… tracks is a bit of track on the side of the road. It is used for boxcars that are waiting to be loaded."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… under the bridge that the water burst through the road surface, leaving a hole a yard in diameter. Despite “numerous and extensive” washouts…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… Veneziano had them run the “four mile loop” (four roads in Hampden that when combined make a four mile run)."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… the resilient people of Guilford kept forging new roads and in fact paved some that had been only gravel for over a century."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… in North Yarmouth, located at 598 Walnut Hill Road, was established in 1894 as the town's first community library. Lura A."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… localized to the church at the Route 9/Blanchard Road intersection. Cumberland Map X Cumberland’s Secession: 1821 This church split…"