Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Native Americans The Deep History of Presque Isle Text by: David Putnam In 1978, as a result of the proposal to construct the Aroostook Centre…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"Six natives were killed and 15 wounded. In 1718 the area of west Saco and Winter Harbor became a separate town with the name of Biddeford, after the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Carrying Place is the narrowest place on the island, where, “…one can throw a stone from water to water at high tide.” Dr."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

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

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

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

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Sylvia’s mother’s name was Mary, who was half white, half Native American. Sylvia lost both her parents at a young age and was later adopted by a…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"A native of Buckfield, Smith rose from a modest rural background to graduate with honors from Bowdoin College in 1818."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"… heaps found on the island tell of encampments by Native Americans – the Abnaki. There is no written information from this time period but…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… historian Fannie Hardy Eckstorm wrote that Native Americans named the Souadabscook Stream, which in their language meant “sloping ledge stream."…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… and others—so our responsibilities to these places remain ever-present, even though for non-Natives it may seem like long ago, or irrelevant."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"Native Americans referred to both the river and the area as Segochet, “a pleasant place,” but Captain George Waymouth, an early English navigator…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1895 Fly Rod fishing in front of Mt. Kineo along the shores of Moosehead Lake.Maine Historical Society The pen…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"… 1776, Betsy Ross, often known as the maker of the American Flag, reported that she had sewed the first American Flag."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… eventually combined to form Skowhegan, the Native American name for the falls and the island. As time went on, manufacturing became an important…"

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…"

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…"

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”."

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."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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