Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office, Lincoln, Built in 1856

"Post Office, Lincoln, Built in 1856 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The Lincoln Post Office was in the Plumly…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lower West side of Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1925

"Lower West side of Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1925 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This view of Lincoln's Main St."

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This view of Main Street in Lincoln looking south…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Primary School, ca. 1910

"Lincoln Primary School, ca. 1910 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description A classroom of twenty-six children and their…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The first clergyman associated with…"

Lincoln, Maine - Primary school on School Street, Lincoln, ca. 1905

"Primary school on School Street, Lincoln, ca. 1905 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This school was built in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950

"Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The Lincoln Center school was built in 1926 to…"

Lincoln, Maine - South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The first school house in South Lincoln…"

Lincoln, Maine - View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is a beautiful…"

Lincoln, Maine - High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903

"High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is the High Street Bridge built in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description A view of the town of Lincoln taken from…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"… Historical Society Text by Karyn Field The Penobscot River was very important to Hampden during the 18th and 19th centuries, providing resources…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… of Summer Street, bordered on the east by the Penobscot River and on the west by the Main Road (Rout 1A)."

Ambajejus Boom House

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City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… illustrations and biographical sketches 1882) The Penobscot River forms the east border of the town for just over six miles."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… on the Hampden, Brewer, Orrington, section of the Penobscot River during the lumber boom of the 1850’s."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… on the Hampden, Brewer, Orrington section of the Penobscot River during the lumber boom of the 1850s."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… was not the first town incorporated in the Penobscot County area it was the first to be inhabited by white settlers migrating primarily from…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… overlooked the tranquil Hampden Narrows of the Penobscot River. Owned by the Stern family of Hampden, the park was leased by the Bangor, Hampden &…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… the mouth of the Souadabscook Stream toward the Penobscot River. He was an early trader with the West Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… on the midcoast of Maine dividing East and West Penobscot Bays. Early settlers arrived by various seacraft (or by sleigh over frozen water)…"

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"Herman Cassens from the collection of the Penobscot Marine Museum X In 1909, R. Herman Cassens, a young entrepreneur, started a postcard…"