Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"All the kids would hook their sleds to the wagons and get a free ride up the hill. Then we would unhitch and slide back down."

Historic Hallowell - Maine Industrial School for Girls

"… Girls Industrial School for Girls, Winthrop Hill, Hallowell, ca. 1919Hubbard Free Library The purpose of the school was thusly defined…"

Historic Hallowell - Prisons and Firearms

"It was known as Limestone Hill. The Legislative Branch built it and owned it too. On September 15, 1924, a fire started in the broom shop, spreading…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"All the kids would hook their sleds to the wagons and get a free ride up the hill. Then we would unhitch and slide back down."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"JHallowell residents, Jude Rice and Dr. Hill, supplied the money to build the automobile. George McClench, Frank McClench, and Charles L."

Lincoln, Maine - Roger Weatherbee of Lincoln in his P-51 H fighter plane, 1946

"… a very low altitude, with students at the Ballard Hill School being able to look right into his cockpit, he then turned the plane upside down and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… Road went across the Thad White Bridge, past York Hill, and on to Poplar Hill. There was a county road that went from Dixfield up to the north side…"

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"… the work of a church building began on Ballard Hill, and on Sunday of November 30th, Reverend Matthew W. Reilly celebrated the first mass."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"… forced to store artifacts in the former Ballard Hill School, and LHS meetings had to be held in the library once again."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Harlow Hill was named for Thomas Harlow, a farmer and the appointed keeper of the village pound for some time. Judge Charles W."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… passed through Thornton Heights (Skunk Hill), went along what we call the Pleasant Hill Road to Chamberlain Road, along Chamberlain to the Black…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… Road, Transalpine Road, Route 2, and Fish Hill. Fox farms generally consisted of 200 foxes. Foxes were fed fish and horse meat."

Surry by the Bay - Resources

"Hill, Surry Historical Society. Wasson, Sam, East Surry, Maine: 27 Decades Of History 1613 to 1883, Surry Historical Society."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… View of Main Street Ridlonville from Day Hill, 1908Mexico Historical Society Text by Irene Hutchinson Images contributed by Mexico…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"Much of the town is wooded, with gentle hills that run from the borders along the river to the sea. The coast is dotted by small, rocky islands and…"

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

"… Black Point on the Nonesuch River and the Libby River.(1) By the 1840s, a railroad drawbridge across the Scarborough River narrowed clearance for…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… one room, painted red, and stood at the top of a hill. Abbott School, Mexico, ca. 1930Mexico Historical Society One of the earliest schools…"

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

"… Oak Hill station was built near the bottom of Oak Hill where 44-46 Black Point Road is today. During the Civil War, the Oak Hill station was a busy…"

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

"… identified themselves as being from Dunstan, Oak Hill, Pine Point or other neighborhood until the 1990s."

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… has traditionally been allied with the Oxford Hills school district, and continues to send both its vocational and Adult Ed students to Oxford…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Toddy Pond itself was not a pond, but rather a river valley known as Eastern River until 1830 when dams were built to operate saw mills ."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"9 East Rumford, No. 12 Red Hill, and No. 13 Isthmus. Stephens High School State Champions, Rumford, 1913Greater Rumford Area Historical Society…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Agriculture played a part in the development of this section of town, too. Scattered farms were located just “above the hill” going towards Carthage…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"This included the section between Bridge Hill and the Ellsworth post office. Ellsworth resisted the change because ”while they were a part of Surry…"