Maine Memory Network

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Islesboro Historical Society

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Hampden Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"… (and later moved to its present site on the Surry Road) houses its collections, including a detailed, handwritten twentieth century census…"

Friendship Museum

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Cary Memorial Library

"… Cary[/url] Cary Memorial Library 17 Old Winthrop Road Wayne, ME [b]Mailing address:[/b] P.O. Box 127 Wayne, MR 04284 207 - 685-3612 email…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"… to Bucksport   Part 5, pages 84-107 Bangor road issues, warmest, coldest days; Bangor skating rink, Bangor Cadet Company   Part 6, pages…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake, and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian Francis M."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"They then set to work building roads, clearing lots, and building cabins. The four-lot clusters were cleared such that the five-acre house clearing…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… houses, the Congregational on the Bass Harbor Road in Southwest Harbor, and the Baptist, on Meeting House Hill in The Center, between Somesville…"

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

"… Drive above the Asticou Inn where the main road of Route 3 meets the upper end of the Asticou Way as well as Asticou Hill Trail."

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

"This area was bypassed when a new road was built and now the old road is closed to public traffic and the area is privately owned."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"At the corner of Elm Street West and the Main Road, Crosby and Stetson built a large brick warehouse (Hampden Historical Society 1976)."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… of men who came from established towns with roads and shops to a densely forested coastline with no roads and no people was perhaps the same spirit…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… of School Street and North Main Street across the road from the Town Hall andd Fire Station. Today it is operating as the United Methodist Church…"

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… sports, do band and chorus, so I am always on the road. My mom is a nursing student, works, and takes care of my littler sister."

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… the past and in the present" My uncle worked as a road constructor and he worked there for a while and then bought his own property, named his own…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"Program cover ca. 1930 All roads lead to the Surry PlayhouseSurry Historical Society Despite the Great Depression, the Surry Theater Company…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… the island, requiring the construction of better roads and making travel between the separate island villages easier."

Westport Island History Committee

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… near your house with the trees, buildings, and roads? A: It was pretty incredible that roads were blocked off with trees that had fallen over."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"Other settlers on the road that would become Main Street were Johannes Anderson, Johan Nilsson Lind, A."

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… different plant (currently Hannaford) on Whitten Road. In 1974, the shoe factory closed all together."

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"If it was deep in the forest, roads were needed to be built. Then a group of year-round loggers arrived and built the camps out of logs (surprise!)."