Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… Anne Chase Akers Allen Another interesting Strong native was Elizabeth Anne Chase, born in Strong, October 9, 1832."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Edmund Muskie Those crazy Coke and Mentos guys Native Americans—in this case the Abenakis—flourished in the western foothills for millennia before…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… after John Neptune, Governor of the Penobscot Native American tribe. The steamboat was owned by the Penobscot Navigation Company."

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"A native of New Brunswick, she enrolled in Madigan Memorial School of Nursing in Houlton in 1937 before taking vows in the Sisters of Mercy in 1944."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"There, he encountered French traders and Native Americans and promptly chased them off. His company then sailed to the larger island of Islesboro…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"It is unclear when the Native Americans first came to the area they referred to as the “great intervale”."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"The Native Americans were the first recorded people to have the religious faith of Catholicism in this area."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Perhaps F.B. Foss, a native of Surry, summarized the town's economic downturn best in two verses of a poem he wrote for the 1903 Centennial: Old…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"Web. 11 Apr 2013. Young, Susan. "Hailing a native son Bangor to rename middle school after Cohen." Bangor Daily News. 9 Dec 1997. Web."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… M., Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830 – 1890, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… seasonally in the area of Bath, no permanent Native American villages occupied the site. And, no settlements resulted from early European…"

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

"… and small boats, following the example of Native Americans. People traveled by streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and long tidal estuaries and bays."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… very fond of the woods and enjoyed studying the native plants, flowers, and wildlife. Presque Isle Historical Society Arthur Gould passed…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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