Maine Memory Network

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

"… coast, buying lobsters to carry to Boston and New York. As the demand for lobsters grew, something else opened up the lobster market -- canning."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… Harbor and Ellsworth or via the internet to New York or Beijing. Sources Used Down Memory Lane by Emily Phillips Reynolds Mount Desert: A History…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"… potatoes in markets as far away as Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The real problem was getting the crops to market because the roads were…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Tracy, a New York lawyer, brought his family and their friends, 27 in all, for a whole month. Though other prominent visitors had visited the island…"

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

"… cities in the United States such as Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. At this time a back to the land movement of sorts emerged."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Acts from Boston and New York were presented and included magicians, dancers, singers, musical vaudeville, acrobats and aerialists, slapstick comedy…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… he operated at Newbury Neck came from Boston, New York and other ports in ships which Coggins owned."

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

"Around 1853 a general store was established in the village and a store/restaurant has operated in the original building ever since then."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Industry Julius Wolff, a food broker from New York, arrived on the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay in 1875 attracted by the abundance of small herring…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field Book. New York: Harper Brothers, 1896. Print. Scott, Geraldin Tidd."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… products to markets in Portland, Boston, New York and beyond. Several generations of Dolloffs used the premises primarily as a dairy farm."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"After the death of his wife, Jacob moved to New York and his brother, Samuel P Abbott took over Little Blue, and opened it as a school for boys in…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"But those same folks coming from Boston or New York could enjoy the fineries provided by fresh linen on both tables and beds, because Farmington also…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… the journey from Maine and down into New York in a letter to his father back home. Once in Washington, the 1st Maine performed guard duty in…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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