Maine Memory Network

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… from Rumford Point to Rumford Falls led to the building of the Kimball School at the Point. The Bisbee School served those families living in the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… permanent homes in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, and particularly Pennsylvania and Ohio."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… on Main and Depot Streets, the old Fraternity building would no longer be needed (1962) and was demolished by a local contractor."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The building, known as “The Old Brick Store” was a landmark until it burned in 1915. Crosby’s Federalist style Grist Mill Store dates from 1809…"

Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"Beedy was contracted to build the bridge. East Strong waited for legislative action as the new bridge began to take shape."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"of New York opened the Baird’s Quarry in Minturn in 1901. It was one of 2 major commercial quarries on the island; the Toothacher Cove Quarry being…"

Boston Public Library

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Bethel Historical Society

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… many new cottages built but by mid-Century the building of new cottages came to a near standstill."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… their own summer “cottages.” By 1890, the cottage-building boom had transformed Bar Harbor. It outdid the rest of the island in the number and…"

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

"Louis, and eight shiploads of paving stones for New Orleans. Carrying stone over water was sometimes perilous: stone sloops sank more readily than…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Because basketball was a new sport, few buildings, schools included, had space big enough to accommodate a regulation basketball court."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… of the winter term, the School moved into its new buildings. By the end of its first year, one hundred and thirty students had entered the school…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"New cash crops were proposed and new agricultural methods were implemented, and while the changes helped the state’s farmers somewhat, the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"All of these buildings are works of art in themselves. Waldo Street Fire, Rumford, 1923Greater Rumford Area Historical Society The history of…"

United Society of Shakers

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Maine State Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"1855Dixfield Historical Society This early building had separate entrances for the men and women and a balcony in the back which opened into the…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"… the middle of the 1800s, the island accepted new buildings, such as the first bank, the high school, two churches, the fire station, a dairy treat…"

The General Henry Knox Museum

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

"… the General Sessions of the Peace" to construct a new county road that went south from the New Gloucester Road at Walnut Hill to the lower bridge…"