Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Merrill, a Civil War veteran, recalled the days when Scarborough was a well-known shipbuilding center."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"A visitor in 1792 reported that in one day he saw five ships in Eden, one headed to London, another to Santo Domingo and three to Boston."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… families on Mount Desert Island still do to this day, members of the Phillips and Savage families would often rent out their bigger primary…"

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

"… wrote in his journal on September 5, “The same day we passed also near to an island about four or five leagues long, in the neighborhood of which…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"… alone, 210 men died, the largest loss in a single day of any Union Army regiment. At home, women were left to tend the farms, manage family…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"But within a few years, new buildings sprang up on the foundations of the old, though this time they were hotels and motels and small inns, built in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"People spent their days toiling long hours to produce the basic necessities of life for themselves and their immediate family."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"Shows ran six days a week, three shows a day. Tickets were reasonably priced and Down East Magazine described the experience at the time as…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"Like the Old House, the Old Ell saw more than one move. Its first move was just to the east of the present day Sand Garden feature in the Asticou…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… Dane Cottage, and still remains standing to this day. As the Rockefeller family planted their roots on Mt."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"By 1870 the village was getting four steamboats a day. A year later it had telegraph service. There were now 11 hotels, mostly along Main Street."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… Island Historical Society They spent their days sailing and rowing across Somes Sound and around the islands, swimming in Lower Hadlock Pond…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"A sampling: “Almost every day canoeing. Big Thunder is always our guide, and one could have no more fitting companion."

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

"… patent had been granted, the Council for New England granted Thomas Lewis and Captain Richard Bonython a four-mile-wide tract of land extending…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"Summers were spent living alone and winters with relatives in New Hampshire. In 1961, Litchfield celebrated his 90th birthday at his niece’s home in…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"Rufus King relocated to New York City two years after his 1786 marriage to Mary Alsop, daughter of wealthy New York merchant John Alsop."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… tourists who often arrived by train from Boston, New York, Montreal and beyond. Set back on Route 1 not far from the Willowdale area was the Danish…"

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

"Most of these products were sold in Boston, Providence and New York City. Drew's Mill, Biddeford, 1909McArthur Public Library Lumber and other…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"All of these tribal names are found in the early literature of the area, as well as the southern New England tribes' names for the Wabanakis --…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"During the construction of the new station, William S. Newell, the president of B.I.W., gave the station a weather vane depicting a destroyer at the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… at the old schoolhouse; the picnic on the last day, Arbor Day, and a Friday afternoon when the primaries and intermediate grades hung Maybaskets."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… six years, proclaiming his innocence to the day he died. Ever since Lura Vellie Libby’s body was found in that shallow grave on Burnt Knoll, that…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… testimony to remarkable growth from the early days of the Second Parish when approximately forty families occupied the Bath-West Bath area."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… has been standing, there have been many good days and several bad ones. 1806 Deed: William King to Ledyard and PalmerPatten Free Library A…"