Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3

"… River Land Trust and High Peaks Alliance and a new 45-mile Fly Rod Crosby Trail. Ben assisted teacher Crystal Knapp Polk with class mapping…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"… small grass-roots organization has developed a new commemorative trail called the Fly Rod Crosby Trail which will eventually stretch 45 miles and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Ball of New Jersey, when he claimed authorship of the poem, keeping Elizabeth involved in legal proceedings to reclaim the rights to her poem, as it…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… Barker Road across from Herrick Mountain Road, in New Vineyard. This school was later called the Guild School."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… began the process of designing and building a new system, consisting of a deep well pumping station on the South Strong Road."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"Here is the letter from Waldo Pettengill to Hugh J. Chisholm regarding plans to build the booms and piers for the mill. Mr."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… the Backingdom Road went across the Thad White Bridge, past York Hill, and on to Poplar Hill. There was a county road that went from Dixfield up to…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 4 of 17

"… and Sons began a contract for the New York Harlem Bridge and a bridge in Philadelphia to provide 25,000 yards of stone to New York and 600 for…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"Drew's Mill, Biddeford, 1909McArthur Public Library Lumber and other goods from the interior came down the river where they were readied for sale…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"Spring built bridges connecting the Island to Biddeford and Pepperellborough 1795-8. Captain Bradbury built a fulling mill on Spring's Island for the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"… story goes that the Irish blocked the Bradbury Bridge and the French blocked the Main Street Bridge; both groups were well-armed and ready to chase…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… Illinois and the foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Andrews' supplied granite to big local projects as well."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… Construction of the new Bradbury Bridge, Biddeford, 1921McArthur Public Library By 1910 Biddeford was the 4th largest city in Maine."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Construction of a new tissue mill (a mill that creates large rolls of thin paper that is then sent off to other manufacturing plants to be converted…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2

"The mill founded flame retardant fabrics in 1974. The mill is over 150 years old. It is located on Route 15 in the center of Guilford, on the right…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Rumford Falls Bridge, the Rangeley Lakes Railroad bridge, and the Ridlonville bridge were washed away."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"A new bridge was built until 1901, when a flood washed it out. Another bridge was built higher this time but in 1936, that bridge was washed out by a…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills. At the same time, many East Surry men, along with…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… Customs House Text by Kimberly Mathews, Charles Mills, Courtney Mitchell, and Ashley Rusaw 7th grade students at Bath Middle School Images from…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"The arch bridge was completed in 1930, replacing the wooden bridge that was mounted on the wire mill dam."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The McCormick house

"… Stockbridge, Earl and Eleanor Tozier, Betty Staples Byrd (with her seven children), Vincent and Charlotte Bridges, and Sheldon and Tina Torrey."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"A grist mill and feed store changed hands from M. L. Hussey to Frank Palmer. S. J. Jackson Company set up a Men’s Haberdashery."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… harnessed for power to run saw mills, shingle mills, grist mills, or anything else that needed more power than could be supplied by men or animals."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… at Harvard and working as a structural and bridge engineer in New York. George M. Coombs’s thirty-seven-year career as an architect ended with his…"