Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"Surry Opera Company Opera Company's Tenth Anniversary festival schedule, Surry, 1994Surry Historical Society Text by Kate Mrozicki Images…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Sears and Roebuck Company Building

"Sears and Roebuck Company Building Text by Logan and Tyler, students at Presque Isle Middle School Images from X Sears and Roebuck Company is…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 1 of 3

"Moving to Maine: There to Here Text by Alana, a student at Presque Isle Middle School Images from After moving to the United States for freedom and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"Moving to Maine: There to Here X Other than shoes, there were a lot of things that my parents did not have, like an indoor toilet."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"Moving to Maine: There to Here Tractor plowing snow, Lovell, ca. 1930Lovell Historical Society After they got over the “snow amazement”…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"O’Brien Electrophone Company moved in and took only one floor of the building. They stayed for five years and invented the car horn."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"By that time, Goodwin had bought a full company share and moved with his family into the Lincoln County Courthouse (built at the proprietors’…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"… Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New England families to the region were…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Phair House, the Bellstead and the Social Security Building

"The building was called the Bellstead because the telephone company owned it. In 1958, the Bellstead was closed and torn down in 1962."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… land, while arguing that, by assuming the risk of moving to Maine, and making the company claim valuable, they deserved a greater share of it."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The electric company did just that in 1891. The electric company was still struggling to turn a profit and asked Gould for advice."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"He re-enlisted January 1, 1864, and transferred to Company A. Sometimes soldiers thought that they would only be serving for six months, and most…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… William Hitchcock commanded the first military company in the area. Starting in 1822, horseback riders delivered mail to Farmington, Strong…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"Without acknowledged Indian deeds of their own, the Kennebec Company came to the opposite conclusion."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"The Strong Water Company was created by an act of the Legislature on March 15, 1899. A corporation of seven townspeople was formed to construct and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"… wood products were manufactured in Strong by the company carrying his name. (In 1947 a disastrous fire destroyed the plant, and production was…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… both before and after the formation of land companies. Most women landowners were widows who inherited such property from their late husbands."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"The current owners of the printing company are Eric and Pamela Allen. Previously, Russell J. Hatch owned the Printing Company from 1983 to 1991."

Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century

"Scrimgeour was well positioned to enjoy a sophisticated social life, and afford fine dressmaking to go with it. The family moved from Ontario…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"Sewall and Company. President Harrison, Bath, 1889Maine Maritime Museum Charter Contract, Schooner Platina, 1845Patten Free Library X…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… were also two mining companies, the Blue Hill Bay Company and the East Surry Company. Despite the town's many businesses however, a worldwide…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"In 1890, the Postal Telegraph company moved into that place and lasted until 1928, when the buildings were torn down to build the City Hall."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"… Zina Hyde Chandlery changed into Hyde and Swanton company, which later became Swanton & Jameson, all at the same address. Swanton & Jameson Co."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"Louis. The emergent youth culture, with its rock & roll and pop music, and move towards less formal dress stimulated growth of a new branch of the…"