Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The rapid expansion of the American population during the 1820s and 30s forced the building of new housing."

Life on a Tidal River - Project Process

"… High School, the devastating 1911 Fire and the rapid reconstruction of the city in the two years following, fit very well with discussions of the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"The community, beginning to grow rapidly, decided to become a city in 1847. It was also the place to store files but people thought that it wasn't a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… supervising the blasting of a passage through the rapids in the Adroscoggin river. Company (Check that HENRY) He remained active in overseeing his…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… the last point of navigation on the Kennebec, the rapids in Augusta that marked the “head of tide,” they came at last upon the Indian village they…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"One place they discovered was the relative backwater of coastal Maine. Seeing an opportunity, A.C. and Emily Savage, like other year-round settlers…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"1900McArthur Public Library Biddeford had rapidly gained the services and utilities that made it a true urban area: city water (1885), electric…"

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

"The thundering logs swept everything before them until they reached the dam just below the bridge. At this point on the river were located the mills…"

Historic Hallowell - Dummer House

"… the charm and happiness in the social life of the rapidly growing village at the Hook. Old Hallowell on the Kennebec, Nason, 1909."

Historic Hallowell - More About the Johnson Brothers

"The shoe business grew so rapidly in Hallowell  that its shoes were being shipped across the country."

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"Between 1914 and 1918, three new paper machines were installed, A, B, and C in the south end of the paper mill complex. The No's."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Free Library The booming city was adding rapidly to its housing, commercial and institutional architectural stock."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… work at the Rumford Falls factory progressed rapidly. In the spring of 1900, the new Bag Factory at Rumford Falls was started; in December of 1900…"

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

"Rapid development started in the 1970s, as people from other areas were attracted to Scarborough's abundant land and unique location."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… had large families, and the population grew rapidly. On its books in 1764, North Yarmouth listed 188 families living in 154 houses, for a total of…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"Ten states and the District of Columbia were represented at the first national encampment held at Indianapolis on November 20, 1866."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"After this came half a mile of intense rapids, followed by a vertical waterfall six times as tall as a man."

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

"The bridge is to cross the river by four forty feet spans, each of which will rest on a double pier of oak piles."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Parker) The Carrabassett has long and thundering rapids, while the Sandy meanders through the broad and fertile valley with canoe connections to…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"The welcoming of houses brought the rapid growth of mills. In the 1790s, first mills were built along the 'sluiceway' and small dams were erected to…"