Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"They traveled up river and spent time among the native villages, where they were treated with kindness and generosity."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"However poorly Maine's native peoples faired after contact with Europeans, only the southwestern tribes would disappear altogether--driven from their…"

Porter Memorial Library

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Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Belfast Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"1850Maine Historical Society A Portland native, Howe made many daguerreotype portraits in the 1850s, including eleven in the Collection."

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"Ordained in 1787, he preached in his native Oxford for the next nine years. From 1796 to 1806 he served as the pastor for a church in Boothbay, Maine."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… University where he specializes in Colonial and Native American history in New England. He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"… is the author of "The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast" (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and "Our Beloved Kin: A New…"

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Native people who made their lives on or near Mount Desert Island lived in groups of several extended families, in houses made of birch bark."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"Skowhegan Island provided an important stopping place for the Native Americans. It was a place where they could fish, plant corn, and harvest corn on…"

Westport Island History Committee

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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."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested in their sovereignty and the imposition of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… was especially practiced by the Ainu, Inuit, Native Americans and people of the Bay of Biscay. Rock carvings have shown several whales being…"

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"As a native he proposed extension of the trail’s terminus into Maine. David Field of the Maine Appalachian Trail Club wrote that “Avery also was very…"

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"… but John reported that he never met a Blue Hill native during his time out west. John and his business partners bought two mining companies along…"

Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"… and one called "The Flag of ’62." This Lincoln native was the Principal Musician with the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery in the Civil War."

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

"… Greely Institute In 1858, one of Cumberland’s native sons left the sum of $27,500 to the town for the establishment of a school for young people…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"In February 1922, Maud Merrill Thomes, a native of Cumberland and the wife of Dr. John B. Thomes of Pittsfield, MA, granted the corporation a plot of…"

The General Henry Knox Museum

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

"… beauty,” Crosby’s affectionate nickname for native brook trout, in Mt. Blue Stream. Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Later, General Charles Wilson, a Mexico native who became a successful lawyer in Rhode Island, purchased the property and added a carriage house, a…"