Maine Memory Network

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

"By century's end the total was about 370. At its peak in the 1850s, shipping and shipbuilding was the island's biggest industry."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… groups, such as the Grange, which reached its peak in the early part of the century, created an enlarged social environment for women and for men."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"At its peak in 1885, Bar Harbor’s summer Indian village at the foot of Holland Avenue was home to 250 Wabanakis."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"… Library The Bar Harbor summer colony reached its peak after the First World War. But the growing income tax began to cut into its excesses, and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… which had started in Maine 100 years earlier and peaked in the late 1900s, when Mainers shipped a million tons of ice south every year."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… the overall number of business in the village peaked in the mid-1980s, then fell dramatically. In 1899, there were about 67 businesses in town."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"During peak season delivery trucks hurried about to the summer cottages and large yachts, providing quick service to chefs who had placed their order…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 12 of 17

"… Saco Fifth Maine Regiment Veteran Reunion, Peaks Island, 1912Fifth Maine Regiment Museum B Company, Fifth Maine Infantry Regiment, served…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"His peak was during the 1870s and 1880s. Incorporation of the Saco Water Power Machine Company, 1837McArthur Public Library Matthew Cobb was…"

Portland Public Library

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Fifth Maine Regiment Museum

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"… of the city until it is split by a number of islands and falls, after which it spreads out and winds its way to the sea."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"Deering in 1866 on Spring Island in Biddeford near Bradbury Dam. J.G. Deering was eventually renamed J.G. Deering & Son Company once Joseph G."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… Company and the Saco Iron Works opened on Cutts Island in Saco; the precursor to the industrialization which would be the making of the towns on…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… between villages.” (Ghere, 513) Wood Island and lighthouse, Biddeford Pool, ca. 1915McArthur Public Library Their doom was just over the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3

"… the Strong Elementary School, and the High Peaks Alliance, pledged to meet monthly and develop five unique presentations, with a community…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"The winds at their peak were 120mph and stayed at that speed for more than 2 days. The first time it hit land was on Long Island, and New York."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Point (Lubec) • John Allan settles on Treat’s Island (Allan’s Island) 1790 • John Cooper, acting as agent for North Lubec (Seward’s Neck) settlers…"

Acadia National Park

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"The flood was caused by ice jams at Swan Island and Browns Island but with the warming temperatures in the late winter, early spring, the winter ice…"

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

"… herring/sardine economy though in decline from peak years in the 1940s. Road construction towards bridge, Lubec, 1962 Lubec Historical Society…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Harness racing was at its peak in the Maritime Provinces at this time as well. The exploits of John R Braden were just as popular on the Canadian…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"In 1854, at the peak of this boom period, at least nineteen major firms were building ships in Bath."