Maine Memory Network

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"Malaga Island Cemetery Malaga resident cemetery at Pineland By Kate Philbrick, 2009 X Soon after the State of Maine purchased Malaga in 1911…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… Library Blue Hill Academy Ever since the 1790s, residents of Blue Hill have been very concerned with the education of their young people."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"According to a paper by Southwest Harbor resident Simon Sklar, after that fire “Sports died in [the] town on the schoolboy level for close to five…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"Ice Storm Interviews Ice Storm, Wingate Residence, Hallowell, 1998Hubbard Free Library Clio Barr's Interview of Wendy Wingate about the Ice…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… and other New England communities 1775 • Machias residents capture British ship Margaretta in the first naval battle of War of Independence 1777 •…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… a “holiday” with shops and businesses closed so residents could attend the event. A banner, “Welcome Gould”, was placed across the main street in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… region, the Maliseets (Malecite) were the primary resident people who called themselves Wolastuqiyik, people of the beautiful river, or people of…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… there were over 1,000 jobs in a town of 1800 residents. In 1983, there was not an empty storefront in all of Guilford."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… midnight, Friday evening, April 10, 1903 the residents of this town were called from their beds to fight one of the most stubborn fires that had…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… Society Colleen McMoarn "Imagine you are a resident of Lincoln during the era of MacGregor's spool mill."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… time, Sam Levie Levesque “Imagine you are a resident of Lincoln during the time of fox farming."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… Historical Society Around 1780, Walnut Hill residents built a school and meetinghouse near the current intersection of Routes 115 and 231."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… the names of the early settlers, dating their residence in the area. When so many of the early records are non-existent, this proves that a family…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Colby College Special Collections

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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.

Acadian Archives

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… collected on the brow of the hill near the residence of H. B. Stoyell, Esq. To give vent to their joyful feelings over the arrival of the first…"

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

"… indicates why: “A majority of the employees are residents of the towns and villages in which the canneries are located."