Maine Memory Network

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"Agry built his house of bricks on Second Street, two houses north of the U.S. Post Office, which is on Winthrop Street and still stands today."

Patten Free Library

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Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"As he passes through its long, parallel streets or up and down its sloping hillsides, he will still see the handsome, spacious houses of the early…"

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."

Old York Historical Society

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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…"

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"The Kennebec River waters have taken over the shore lines and even some houses have been considered ruins in what is now left of the shores of…"

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…"

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."

Seal Cove Auto Museum

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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."

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…"

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."

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."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… businessmen were attracted from throughout New England with hopes of employment. An exception to the more modest construction along the river was…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"They had to be accommodated with boarding houses, and the management decided that they must live as well as work under the best possible conditions."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"The turnpike, the first in New England, ran straight across the marsh from Oak Hill to Dunstan, the current path of Route 1, and was funded by tolls…"

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…"

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…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… Society & Museum On 4 December 1900 New England was hit by an extremely severe storm. Destruction to shipping was widespread, especially along the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"Obviously most of the schools in New England were closed. People were trapped in their cars, cold and hungry."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Branches of the family spread out all over New England but the branch of Nortons that came to the Franklin County area lived on Martha’s Vineyard."