Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"William Bingham’s Maine Lands, 1790-1820 (Boston: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volumes 36 and 37, 1954)."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" Site of Scarborough Marsh Audubon CenterScarborough Historical Society & Museum Realizing that this…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" aerial view of marsh X Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Bruce…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" Sources Dunstan River X Acts and Resolves of the Legislature of Maine."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" Moses Banks MapScarborough Historical Society & Museum The Scarborough Marsh has long been important…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Public Library

"Scarborough Public Library Kathy Amoroso (L), MHS Director of Digital Projects, and Celeste Shinay (R), Scarborough Public Library Representative…"

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Caribou Public Library

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"Positioning itself as the sole source of legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"The Beyond Borders portal provides access to vital primary resources for framing scholarship, programs, exhibitions, and civic dialog about land and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"Jane, along with her mother and brother, had sold land to English colonists eight years prior, and Jane insisted that the English honor their prior…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"Land—lots of it—was a means to that end. In 1714, for instance, eight Boston men established the Pejepscot Company, which claimed a large tract…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… often hidden within histories of land barons and proprietors. Additionally, the project intended to transcribe about one half of the initial page…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"Inspired by a project between Zooniverse and Boston Public Library, MHS partnered with Zooniverse to create full-text transcriptions of manuscript…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Welcome

"… together the new and the old, the ocean and the land. It creates a stronger sense of community through a greater understanding of the Town's…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"Richard King House, Dunstan Landing, Scarborough, ca. 1930Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Richard King Richard King, born in 1718 in Boston…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Since it was three miles up the river from the coastline, Dunstan Landing was a fairly inconspicuous place and less exposed to attack by the British."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… ground on Mill Island where Roundy and Wood first landed indicate that the native American presence here dated back to almost 4000 years before…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Portland could take two days via a circuitous dry-land route. Because of Scarborough’s unique geography consisting of marsh and rivers, it was…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… veterans used government-backed grants to claim land elsewhere in the state, others remained and pushed outward to North Scarborough."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Beginnings (pre-1631) Long before European settlement, the Sokokis Indians lived in what we know as Scarborough. They called it Owascoag, "land of…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… immigration has helped support a thriving public library, quality public and private education, a cooperative food market, a rebirth of local…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"With purchase of additional land in 1920, the original golf course evolved into a reasonably challenging nine-hole layout."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Meet the Team

"… Scarborough Middle School, and the Scarborough Public Library. Each team has brought a unique compliment of strengths and resources to the MCHP…"