Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths of a mile, cost 10 cents and included free admission."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper on a continuous roll."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"The cloth was used to make the paper at the mill, and a portion of the paper was sent back to Boston to a newspaper company."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"The Hampden papers show that John Crosby was born on April 19, 1757, and died on May 25, 1843. The Crosby home is still standing today on the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Within its boundaries were numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Rumford Falls Sulphite Company; the Continental Paper Bag Company; and finally, the Oxford Paper Company."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"Leane (1858) and Rumford Historical Society and Elliot E. “Bud” Burns (1972) Paper Times, August, 1976 “The Man”"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… worker and an able correspondent of the local papers. An excerpt from his diary reads: I packed my goods, loaded them and started for Mann Hill…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"Dr. Arad Farwell was another early physician, as well as Dr. Tracy. Henry W. Parks general store stood on the corner of Main Street and Roxbury Road…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… realized the economic possibilities of the Oxford Paper Company bringing jobs to the area, he purchased a large tract of land that became known as…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… have the pleasure before long of listening to a paper on this subject by one of its earnest advocates, ‘Captain’ Charles Eliot.” -- W.H."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

""Mayor Park of Mexico Corner, Etched by a Globe Man," Boston Daily Globe, Sunday, July 20, 1890, copied and typed by Richard J."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Very sick and growing worse. Mrs. Park sat up in the evening; Mrs. White came and watched. Carrie so sick and suffering so much. We sent for Dr."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… established small hospitals in the Strathglass Park area. Dr. McCarty subsequently moved his hospital to Maine Avenue, but by 1926 the region had…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Building (Hotel Harris); and the Strathglass Park. All of these buildings are works of art in themselves."

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

"According to a paper by Southwest Harbor resident Simon Sklar, after that fire “Sports died in [the] town on the schoolboy level for close to five…"

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"… there and you can tell because there are vehicles parked in front of the building in almost every picture we found for Solomon’s Store and the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"… it and tore it down to add more space for their parking lot. Lincoln Movie Theater Diorama by Brady Hawkins X Brianna Fink "Create a statement…"

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… story, song) about it" Cars Shiny, Dirty Parking, Driving, Steering Riding Down the Roads of Lincoln Model T Buy a Model-T Cruising Down Streets…"

Ambajejus Boom House

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Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… and from the land, and some of them worked at the paper mill in Bucksport. “Summer people” in Surry and in Blue Hill provided seasonal employment…"

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"They hauled pulp and paper, petroleum, mill products, and chemicals. In 1962 the railroad running through Guilford was torn up."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Paper-making was coming into Maine and promised to be an expanding industry. Future paper mills would be located near Bangor but not in the city…"