Maine Memory Network

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"X Throughout this period, separationists, anti-separationists and the press consistently debated the question of an independent Maine."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"During this period, the office handled four hundred commissions in fifty Maine communities across the state. In 1896, George M."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"During this period, he oversaw the planning of such notable projects as the Muskie Federal Building in Augusta, the Forest Resources Building at the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… trade in fish, furs and lumber led to the boom period of 19th-century wooden shipbuilding. Wars, national economic upswings and downturns, changes…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"… or buzzer over the intercom to tell when a class period ends. This system provides structure for kids who have to go to many different classrooms…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… back then were played in three twelve minute periods, and according to The Gossip, “each period was full of thrills to the last second.” Today…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"From 1765 through 1880 our climate was generally cool, interspersed with short periods of more moderate, as well as more severe, conditions."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… fishery and the trading, men were gone for long periods. So women ran the households. They cut and split firewood."

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"A typical tool of that time period cost around $10. Another type of logger’s tool was called a peavy which had two spikes on the end and was used to…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"Much of the island in that time period was covered in mills and factories. According to Lee Granville, the president of Skowhegan's local historical…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… of Hampden’s shipbuilding days except for a brief period at the beginning of World War I when Hampden’s shipbuilders were pressed into service to…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"1960Lubec Memorial Library Smuggling During this period, despite measures taken by Washington to curtail illicit trade in the border region, goods…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… changes due to fires, styles of different time periods, and the business needs of Bath citizens changing over the years."

Blue Hill, Maine - Meet Blue Hill's Project Team

"… his home and belongings and artifacts of the period in which he lived in order that his life may serve as an inspiration to others."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"The building was used as a roller rink for a period of time after the development of television, making movies less profitable."

Lincoln, Maine - Gary Gordon

"… lives of others who went on to live for a longer period of time. He has now earned the highest medal, the Medal of Honor."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"… and carriage maker in Lincoln at that time period. Thomas also made carriages for the public to buy. Thomas S. Libby remodeled Lora C."

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"The store was in operation for a rather long period of time and was open straight through the Great Depression."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"… career as an illustrator was underway, a period that lasted nearly twenty years. In 1861, Harper’s Weekly sent Homer to the front lines of the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"During its period of operation, famous people who landed at the Scarborough airport were Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post."

Skowhegan History House

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"One historian called the period from 1812 to 1912 the "Waltz Century." The speed, rhythm, and form of the waltz as well as its place in the social…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"… successful completion of a preclinical training period culminated in the awarding of a distinctive training cap, presented at a formal ceremony."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"After a brief period of teaching and travel, he became a newspaper editor in Portland. In 1829 he started the Portland Courier, in which he published…"