Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890, 1996. Rowe, W.H. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"… to take a trip to Solomon’s Store?” When the fall comes, the children save up their money from the summer and they go to the Solomon’s Store to buy…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… as a ghost to its former glory, unused, and falling into disrepair. For many Dixfield citizens, however, the Tuscan Opera House will always…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Meductic, Tobique, and Grand Falls were such large village sites, with Madawaska another that occurred above the salmon run."

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

"In the fall of 1999, some bold members of the area community, concerned that the property might be developed into house lots, formed a nonprofit…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Fall/Winter - Before the frosts came, the women and children went into the forests to forage nuts and berries."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"In the fall of 1843, the school was reopened under the leadership of George W. Jewett, and for the next five years was successful."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"Was there anyone to blame for the fall of the economy? I think that my mother blamed Hoover and blamed the whole thing on him."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… Society In the 1870’s, the grand finale of the fall Farmer’s Club was a parade of oxen. One time, it is remembered, the finale was fifty-seven…"

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

"At the original settlement in Blue Hill Falls, mills were powered by the tidal currents alternately flooding and emptying the Salt Pond."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"Fall and spring it traveled on wheels and in the winter on runners.The number of school children riding school buses in Scarborough has risen…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"In the fall of 1795 Knight returned to Falmouth to bring his wife, carrying their two-year-old son, Merrill, Jr., to their new home."

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

"Another old landmark, “the old watering trough” sat in the square at the North Village, it was made by Charles Harris and maintained by Warren…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"More on canning sardines in Lubec. Rise and Fall Lubec’s population rose to 3,363 by 1910. American Can Company built a plant for the manufacture of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… the group that controlled the Aroostook Falls in New Brunswick. The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad saw this as a threat to business and expanded their…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… Hill, before 1914Blue Hill Public Library The Old Schoolhouse The Old Schoolhouse, also known as the village school, was the schoolhouse located…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Locals say that if you fall into an outgoing current, you end up in open ocean. “Remembering that caution I dropped my surveying instrument before I…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"But excepting for the fall, the river is beautiful..." Samuel de Champlain, 1604 Champlain's pleasing description underscores Bangor's natural…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… Lubec to work in the canneries in the summer and fall” (p. 87). Judging from the teenagers and children in the group portrait, families must have…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"In the fall, trees are ablaze with a myriad of colors before giving way to winter’s frozen snowmobile trails and ice-fishing huts."