Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Theater

"The building was sold to the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. It is now used as a parking lot for Maine Public Service employees."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architecture

"… retains the original 19th century flavor of a New England coastal village. A large majority of the homes were designed and built by captains and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."

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

"Most New Englanders did not change their view of Maine until the decisive defeat of the Wabanakis’ French allies in the Seven Years War (1756–1763)…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 2 of 2

"The New England Championship tournament was held in Durham, NH at the University of New Hampshire. There the Panthers would go on to beat a strong…"

Northeast Historic Film

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"The area became favorable to southern New Englanders because there was plenty of land for younger sons to inherit."

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

"… Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)."

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"… crew of photographers traveled through rural New England and New York focusing their lenses on locally known landmarks, street scenes, country…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… by Passamaquoddy people and the itinerant New England fisherman who remained the region’s primary European population."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… men as the primary economic actors in White New Englanders’ settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men

"… now Hallowell were shipbuilders from southern New England who soon realized that all you needed to build ships on the Kennebec was a stand of…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. Mattituck, N.Y.: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1936. Craig, Murray C."

Old Berwick Historical Society

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"The old Queen’s Hospital buildings were kept for housing and classrooms for the 140 students then enrolled in the School of Nursing. The new…"

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

"New York: New York University Press, 2019. Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier…"

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"… location, and by the characteristic old-time New England atmosphere of the place. As he passes through its long, parallel streets or up and down…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… the furs would help to retire debts they owed to England. They learned that this area along the river was called Koussinok (“the place of sacred…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"… more that forty years, Agry sailed from Boston to England, France, and Mediterranean ports.  Agry’s wife accompanied him on many of his voyages and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s

"… draggers and sardine boats were built for New England fisheries, as well as an increasing number of pleasure vessels."

Guilford, Maine - WELCOME

"… hundred years; young, as far as towns go in New England, yet witness to significant change in methodology, technology, and economy throughout the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Sports

"… softball Tournaments and placed third in the New England Softball Championships. Even though it was the height of the fishing season, team members…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… assistant at Maine Historical Society and a student in the University of Southern Maine's New England and American Studies graduate program."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"… title back to a 1629 grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King Charles I under a royal charter) to a vague, poorly defined area…"