Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… talented workmanship identified with a local name. For more information on this topic, please visit Netting on Islesboro video ."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… the Aroostook Medical Center on Academy Street is named in his honor. In 1905, while searching for lumber, he found a holding ground for lumber up…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… is a mangled version of Wolastuq, the original name for the St. John River. The families would disperse broadly through the late summer and fall…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"John MacGregor was a name that was constantly remembered. Aug. 21, 1885 The mill is burning!! It supposedly started up just after lunchtime, but was…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… story, song) about it" There once was a man named Jack Jimenez. He had a serious toothache one day, so, remembering an ad he saw in the…"

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

"… selling their product under the Chase Brothers name. By 1904, Cumberland had four large greenhouses boasting 28,000 feet of glass, producing…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… formed a nonprofit organization, appropriately named “Skyline Farm,” to save the farm and collection."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… and hospice agencies under one umbrella and one name, VNA Home Health and Hospice. The full merger was completed in 2015 providing the continuum of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Walter was approached by a business man by the name of Okell to offer Drummond Tobacco products. As Walter had already decided to sell, he declined."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"Clark Brook was named for this family. A good brickyard was located near the Clark homestead and the brick school house was built in 1845 with bricks…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"In 1927, Bangor named an elementary school in Mary's honor. The Mary Snow School is on Broadway and continues to thrive."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"The soldiers trained at Camp Washburn (named for Maine Gov. Israel Washburn), a temporary assembly and camp area in Portland’s East Deering, across…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"Sept. 8, 1870: Last Friday, while a Frenchman named Geraud was digging under an embankment on the depot grounds in this village, the dirt above him…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… several derivations of Pierre Paul’s Christian name found in historical records. He was given land on the Sandy River for his services in the…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… was reported that Jonathan Weston suggested the name for one of the German free cities because of its shape, location and the fact that trading was…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… lithographed ones for the sides with the company name and brand. Plates for the sides had to be accurately sheared into strips."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"In his honor, the library is named the John B. Curtis Free Public Library and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places."

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

"… Corner, the center of East North Yarmouth—so named because the settlement lay east of the Royal River. At Dunn's the Atlantic and St."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"In 1975, the name of the organization was officially changed to Maine Maritime Museum. While the mission of the institution concentrates on the…"