Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

""Fly Rod" Crosby Text By: Ben Godsoe Return to Online Exhibits Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby (1854-1946)Maine State Museum Cornelia “Fly Rod”…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… on the north side of Blue Point near the mouth of Mill Creek. Jane’s fireplace with its blackened hearthstone could be seen for many years until it…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… a huge and thriving arts scene in the area, in no small part due to the many talented French-Canadians who had moved here."

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"So overall, if there were no hospital, no one could get any medical attention, and no one could get any help with broken limbs or illness."

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

"… a boarding house in Lewiston, and he worked in a mill. By 1880 they returned to the area to live in Strong."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… was being conducted, kicking off a $3 million renovation and expansion that would provide 8,000 square feet of new space at the school."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… and an afternoon session from 1:00 until 2:30 or 3:00. For her lunch Lura carried two apples and a piece of gingerbread."

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"The basic mail route for the surrounding towns of Maine started on March 3, 1825. Mail came from different places."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"Steamboats, however, are no longer part of the Lincoln economy and there are no steamboats still in the Lincoln area."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Dist.# 3 - McCleary School was on the east side of the Sandy River in the South Strong area at the junction of South Strong and the road now known as…"

McArthur Public Library

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

"When he died 3 years later, she went to work at the Massey House, a Minturn boarding house for quarry workers."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… and shops to a densely forested coastline with no roads and no people was perhaps the same spirit that infused the passengers on the first ships…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"On June 17, 1912 this mill district burned and a stock company was formed and Mr. C.H. Bartlett soon rebuilt a modern wood turning plant."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… Farmington Historic School Districts Farmington Mill Sites Farmington Tanneries Titcomb Family Sites Interactive Google Earth Maps: These are…"

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

"Higgins Saw Mill, Somesville, 1890Southwest Harbor Public Library By statehood in 1820 islanders were thriving."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Flour produced by his grist mill helped provide a more varied diet for area residents. In 1832 a canal connecting Johnson Bay and South Bay was dug…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… Library Flood, Joppa viewed from Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1936Hubbard Free Library The river also was getting its spring flow of water which…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the Great Works in the West Village in 1803, taking advantage of the abundant forests."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Lubec – shell middens found on South Bay and Mill Creek. Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach ocean travel routes."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… of Old Blue Point and Portland Street (Milliken Mills Road). It ceased operation in the 1920s and the building moved.(5) It was later burned down…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"… Images from New Portland Historical Society Grist Mill Bridge: The Grist Mill Bridge, also known as one of the Twin Bridges (along with Gould Hill…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Today, the mills no longer operate on the island leaving only the Weston hydroelectric station formerly owned by Central Maine Power."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, White Oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill before the next surviving letter."