Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… seemed nothing could discourage the machinery of progress. As the decade of the ‘70s drew to a close, there were over 1,000 jobs in a town of 1800…"

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

"As time progressed, the business grew and was named the Somerest Telephone and is now known as TDS Telephone Company."

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

"As the years progressed, things changed at the fair. Crowds increased because the fair grew from a single midway to a double."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"In 1887 reconstruction of the damaged village was progressing with intensity. By 1888 the town was being compared to the Phoenix bird that became…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"“Lubec … 1800: A Century of Progress”, The Herald Magazine, December, 1899. Lubec Herald, February 26, 1891. Lubec Herald, October 28, 1898."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… was an issue among Republican and Democratic Progressives nationally at the time. However, the concept probably had little meaning in Lubec or…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"It was indeed an era of progress. Lumber Mill on the Penobscot, Bangor, ca. 1895Bangor Public Library By the turn of the 20th century, the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"But as time progressed, more districts began to emerge and by 1850 there were twenty-one districts with twenty-one schools."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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