Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"That Pioneer Spirit written by Bonnie Gray and Dottie Murchison revisions by Jeannette King, Mark Koscuiszka, Julie Housum, and Donna Vigue…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Phair House, the Bellstead and the Social Security Building

"Phair was a Presque Isle pioneer and a wealthy man. Phair was known as the “Starch King” because he was in the potato starch business."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"This is a record of one of these earliest white pioneer clans, the Savage family, who settled on Bingham Heirs’s Lot #67 in a hamlet they called…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… were the most prominent of the local granite pioneers, with the largest quarries in Biddeford, located out along the Pool Road."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"… to live near the water and so many of the early pioneers who needed to get supplies and get around settled along the coast and on the islands."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Seven pioneer families, those of Thomas Eustis, Joseph Eustis, Samuel Knapp, Stephen Barnard, Isaac Gleasson, Benjamin Edwards, and Zebediah Mitchell…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… Chapter of the Daughters of America as a ‘true pioneer of education.’ In June of 1961 she was also awarded the title of ‘Professor Emeritus,’ nine…"

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

"Finally, the Champlain Society is significant because the sense of place they acquired during their time on the island had a lasting impression not…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"… biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880. Condon, Richard H."

Abbe Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… as a boy! In addition to agriculture, Holmantown pioneers raised cattle, sheep and small farm animals and supplemented food supplies from the wild…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"Isaac Gleason was considered the pioneer of Mexico Corner. The Gleason farm, also known as The Intervale Farm, followed the contour of the…"

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

"Bangor and Piscataquis Canal locomotive "Pioneer," ca, 1890Bangor Public Library The line was just over 12 miles, from the station in the block…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Elizabeth Anne Chase Akers Allen was a pioneer for her writing ability and her self-sufficient lifestyle."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… and the hum of life in the home of the hardy pioneer. Then, as the years fly by, the growth of the settlement to a village and a town; roads and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"During work on the French filmmaking pioneer Maurice Tourneur's movie Woman (1918), John van den Broeck, a 23-year-old Dutch cinematographer, slipped…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia, Pa.: Everts & Peck, 1880. (M) Downs, Jacques M. The cities on the Saco."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"He wanted his children to know how the "pioneers" of the Bangor area "procured their education and livelihood, enjoyed their amusements &c." His…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Many a pioneer used the Indian route to travel from the coast, moving inland, seeking refuge from the British."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… of Land….” In April of the same year the first pioneers came to Blue Hill and settled on Mill Island at what is now near the reversing falls."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"He pioneered a homely form of commentary that paved the way for later humorists such as Sam Slick, Mr. Dooley, and Will Rogers."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… 1919, and by 1928 he was recognized as one of the pioneers in the industry, as noted in the January 1st, 1928 edition of the Portland Sunday…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… proved vitally important to these early pioneers. The area’s Native Americans had begun much of the arduous work Farmington’s forefathers needed to…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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