Maine Memory Network

Abbe Museum

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"Long before the settlement of Hampden, the native people named places for characteristics that they observed in their natural surroundings."

Hudson Museum

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

"Lisa Brooks, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008)."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Development of an Island-wide Identity

"… for its natural beauty, the resilience of its native people, and the contributions of those who have made it their new home."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"Baskets were made locally, usually by Native Americans. The strips of wood used to make these baskets came from ash trees."

Life on a Tidal River - The Flying Torah

"… the plain with the TorahBangor Public Library A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota Chaplain Harold H."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong

"Pierpole, a Native American living in the area when the white settlers arrived, referred to it as “middle town” on the Mussul Unsquit, his name for…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Greer, Allan. Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The natives were fond of a bell that Father Rasle had. The natives wished that when they rang the bell, it sang as sweetly as it did when in father…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"The memorial reflects Savage's love of the native stones on the island and the quiet joy he took spending time in the lesser travelled and beautiful…"

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…"

Frye Island Historical Society

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Skowhegan Community History - Lakewood Theater

"In previous years, it had been a Native American settlement. Later that year, the park became formally known as Lakewood Theater."

Steep Falls Library

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Moosehead Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"Cole. Lovell native Eastman Johnson was one of nineteenth century America’s leading portrait and genre artists."

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

"… to claim and grant away land already within Native jurisdiction under the doctrine of vacuum domicilium, a legal doctrine used to argue that an…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… adhering to the NEH's Code of Ethics Related to Native Americans. The Zooniverse X The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and adheres of the NEH’s Code of Ethics related to Native Americans. X"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… the other a self-taught and experimental Maine native – was a professional one. When Ms. Farrand was converting her Reef Point estate into a…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"In 1676, the conflict between the natives, who had been generally welcoming, and the European settlers in New England became known as King Philip’s…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The religion of the French was more appealing to the natives as opposed to the strict Puritan Church that held little likeness to these people of…"

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… anything of value left? The economy of early non-native settlers was built on the barter system. Hard currency was scarce."