Maine Memory Network

Patten Free Library

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"In 1631 the Council for New England granted Cammock the Patent of Black Point, 1500 acres from the Spurwink to the Black Point River, back one mile…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Bob Marley

"“New England is the funnest for me because I grew up here, and everybody feels like family.” - Bob Marley. References: ● Wilson, P.F."

Davistown Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… there was a new switchboard installed by the New England Telephone/Telegraph Company. The telephone is very useful to the town of Lincoln."

Old York Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… Historical Society For their part, as White New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they mobilized kinship ties that structured…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… amount of power within the company and New England politics as a whole. John Ruck John Ruck was the brother in law of Thomas Hutchinson and the…"

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

"Desert Island and throughout New England at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor. In 1604 Samuel de Champlain wrote in his journal on September 5, “The…"

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"… all across Maine and even some parts of New England have heard of the devastating news in Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"… the ice storm of ’98? The storm hit most of New England and parts of Canada, and worried the whole country."

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"… United States and certainly is the oldest in New England. Handtubs operated by making a long pole with a piston on each end go up on one side and…"

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

"… documents European settlement of northern New England, specifically coastal and interior Maine, land distribution, and conflicts before and during…"

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"… old Town Hall building on Second Street where it exists today, making it one of the oldest continuously operating fire stations in New England."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"… and other rural uprisings throughout New England. The September meeting ended with a decree that Mainers would vote on the question of separation…"

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

"… for American History and Diplomacy and the New England Society Book Award for Historical Nonfiction in 2019."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… Cumberland Turnpike was the first turnpike in New England. Dr. Southgate passed away 2 November 1833 at the age of 92. Sources Chapman, Leonard."

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

"… welcoming, and the European settlers in New England became known as King Philip’s War. As part of this conflict, all 65 colonists of North Yarmouth…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… carload to Boston." From there they were "sent to England and sold at top prices.” In 1872, the first refrigerated rail car came to Farmington."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"She was in England only a short time before being transferred to North Africa. The trip was anything but routine and the boat she was on was…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… it may be related to the town of Rumford in England, from which some settlers’ ancestors had come. Robert Nisbet, Rumford, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… was Jacob Abbott’s open secret....here the New England passion for self-improvement, as it was understood by the plainer folk, found its completest…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… 1974 team (State champs) and the 1976 team (New England champs) were also powerhouse teams. The ’74 and ’76 teams never played their State…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… theaters popping up in vacation locales of New England in the 1920s and '30s, the Surry Theater offered a different play every week during their…"