Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Dixfield East Dixfield Post Office and General Store, Wilton, ca. 1914Dixfield Historical Society EAST DIXFIELD The Next Section to be…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"Captain Parker was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and came to the area once the war was over. Parker is noted as the second settler in town…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… a good picture of life in Blue Hill in the post revolutionary period. However many feel his most extraordinary accomplishments are found in the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… perhaps due to the fact that it was settled post-Revolution. Penobscot chief Joseph Orono joined with the colonists to fight the British in 1779…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… industry and communication and the confusion of post-war life, the island made the shift to modern utilities and once again became more…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"The towered corner building housed the Post Office in 1911 (and for many years afterward), was also proudly deocorated for the grand celebration."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… home Hilltop House to help fund his college and post-graduate education and the college education of his brother Ralph."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Schools, post offices and churches were established in whatever manner possible—run out of private homes before they had buildings of their own."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… provided a landing strip and runway for the post war craze of flying. It was also an ideal landing spot for long distance Atlantic flights, there…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… Historical Society Also in 1901, a post office was establishing. Lewis Anderson was the postmaster."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… Larrabee X Eugene Larrabee occupied the post from 1930 to 1939; his children and Johnson’s walked together to school."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"It contains two or three churches, a post office, telegraph office, about a dozen stores and the usual number of lawyers and doctors, one public…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… Street in Farmington, on the lot where Farmington Post Office now stands. Their children were successful in their own right."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… that can be made given the historical climate of post revolutionary America. Most likely these men brought their families to create a better life…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… to Turtle Head, had several small stores and a post office. Its young residents attended the Parker School."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"We have a Presbyterian Church, a post office, a historical society and Ace Electric Company. The Lion's Hall is still here but not used very much."