Maine Memory Network

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

"1871 North Yarmouth Historical Society Locating the old houses of Cumberland map, by Hope Dilloway, 1989Prince Memorial Library"

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

"In 1883 meetings were held on the proposed location of a railroad from Farmington, some townspeople were for the railroad and some were against it…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… which had been controversial at earlier town meetings, solidly supported the formation of the department on March 12, 1947."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… and a city farm in an effort to care for and meet the needs of its citizenry. The city's population, during this trying economic time, grew very…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"The first meeting was in the year of 1914. Another one of the pro-suffrage organizations was the Maine Woman Suffrage Association founded in 1873."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… Academy held their first meeting at The Center Meeting House in April 1807. (Butler’s History of Farmington) Searching Butler’s History of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… footsteps, seeing the need for expansion to meet the needs of a rapid growing country. Between 1914 and 1918, three new paper machines were…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"It was supposed to meet up with the Bangor Old Town and Milford Railroad. $30,000 to $40,000 was subscribed for the project; however because of the…"

Bangor Public Library

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… a new middle school was constructed and the old one sold for a dollar to house a new transportation company which brought excise tax dollars and…"

St. Croix Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"A search then ensued for a tree that would meet the stringent specifications of the chief horticulturist of the National Capital Parks Department…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… together, the inside of which looks like an old fashioned “cob house” on an improved scale. The interior is filled with heavy stones and gravel."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"A warrant for the first Town Meeting was issued on July 7, 1811. Hopley Yeaton grave, North Lubec, ca."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"However, Gould had a chance meeting with Charles F.A. Johnson who was in the lumber business. Johnson was thinking of retiring and thought perhaps…"