Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… Library School Consolidation and Blue Hill Consolidated School The Consolidated School was built in 1938 and opened its doors to students in 1939…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… BLUE HILL by Nicholas Niehoff, Grade 8, Blue Hill Consolidated School Collaborators: Alicia Allen, Lauren Doolittle, Brooklin Eaton, Abby Ford…"

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

"… in a $3 billion stock swap, adding to the ongoing consolidation in a forest-products industry beset with excess inventory resulting from weakening…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… came to exist in 2008 as a result of a state-wide consolidation initiative, and from its birth RSU 10’s motto has been “Becoming One”."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… of school buses and a new concept of school consolidation. By the early 1950s most of these small, independent schools had disappeared."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"Research at a burial ground on Mill Island where Roundy and Wood first landed indicate that the native American presence here dated back to almost…"

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

"… first pioneers came to Blue Hill and settled on Mill Island at what is now near the reversing falls. John Roundy was 36 and Capt."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"At the original settlement in Blue Hill Falls, mills were powered by the tidal currents alternately flooding and emptying the Salt Pond."

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

"A few mills still operated along Mill Stream in the center of town. Fish packing plants in South Blue Hill canned clams, mackerel, and herring."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… from dangling a summer kid by his feet off the Mill Stream bridge because he would not give way to others on a sidewalk in the center of town."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse

"… Schoolhouse closed when the three island schools consolidated into one in 1951. By the 1960s, the schoolhouse was in disrepair and was eventually…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… joined several other area towns in a high school consolidation project. Students of high schools serving Strong, Avon, Phillips, Eustis, Stratton…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"… the Guilford site a few more years and then consolidated their Maine functions as Pride Sports, Inc., to the Burnham plant."

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

"… jokes survived the new technology! SEE NOTES Consolidated School, Swan's Island, 1954Swan's Island Historical Society The separation between…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Running the Town

"… report lists nine members comprising the school consolidation planning committee. The three women noted were Irene Kent representing Atlantic, Avis…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… single store, and ease of travel, the post office consolidation has all but eliminated the practical separation between Minturn, Atlantic, and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"Many Maine Masonic Lodges have consolidated, and the Davis Lodge, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, combined with the Phillips Lodge, and the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"1940Islesboro Historical Society A consolidation of the grade schools came about in 1941-42, when Grades 7 and 8 went to the Town Hall and the…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… additions to create a single complex – Lubec Consolidated School 1977 • Construction of Lubec Municipal Building on site of the old Hilltop School…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Flour produced by his grist mill helped provide a more varied diet for area residents. In 1832 a canal connecting Johnson Bay and South Bay was dug…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Long term, but small foundries consolidated in an effort to survive. A ceramics industry met with initial success, and the boot and shoe industry…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… mills and a dam to provide water power for those mills; there were equally as many mills and homes surrounding the dam on both the Farmington Falls…"