Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Somersworth, N.H. New England History Press, 1983 {a reprint of 1885}. Parker, Thomas. Early History of Farmington, Maine. L'Anse, MI."

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…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"The Marston-Lawrence farm X Riverside Farm The Marston-Lawrence homestead still stands on North Road in North Yarmouth overlooking a small oxbow…"

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."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… farms produced crops that were sold in the village and village merchants sold goods to the rural farmers."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… many families left the coast” and other New England regions. (The Falls: Where Farmington, Maine Began in 1776, Ben & Natalie Butler) Amid “rumors…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Since the Civil War, many towns throughout New England had erected monuments such as the Merrill memorial in Cumberland, to those who had served in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"The first cornfields at Meductic (south of present day Woodstock, New Brunswick) were planted by native refugees from southern New England following…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"Nathaniel married Melinda Carlton and farmed in New York and Avon and in Freeman. He enlisted from Freeman as a Sergeant in the Company D 28th Maine…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… close by Fort Mary (the local garrison) or the village of Winter Harbor, and settlers continued to farm, fish and trade."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Farming continued to keep families in produce and meat. With the many varieties of fish available in the Gulf of Maine and the surrounding waters…"

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…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… the moral teachings of the Puritans that the New England people were supposed to exemplify. There now can be seen a monument on the site in the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… and fifty years before conditions in colonial New England would allow any attempt at permanent settlement."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"The English-speaking Anglicans from England constructed a unique structure from stones taken from the Swift River; St."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… • British deport Acadians to Maine and other New England communities 1775 • Machias residents capture British ship Margaretta in the first naval…"

Acadian Archives

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"The stately federal-style houses that grace the shaded village streets of Blue Hill today were built in the early nineteenth century with profits…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… Cumberland Turnpike, the first turnpike in New England. It crossed the marsh between Dunstan and Oak Hill, the current path of Route 1, and was…"