Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"A school building was erected on Roxbury Road and one near Highland Terrace before 1850. The next to come was the Walton School, then the Kingdom…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Traveling was still very rough in our region throughout the 19th century. The creation and condition of our roads and their constant maintenance was…"

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… mills, 305 houses, 362 barns, and 71 miles of roads. Stockholm became the name of the plantation originally organized in 1895, although the north…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"Tree limbs had knocked onto peoples houses and roads,damaging about everything. Like cars, and homes."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… Society The Lowell homestead was on the Whittier Road, (now # 655 Whittier Road). “The orchards had 1,000 or more trees and each fall Lowell…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village Schools

"… it was also known as, was located on the Middle Road. This school was built around 1875 and had a woodshed, boys and girls outhouse and an entryway."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Selectmen, Town Clerk, and Tax Collector, Bondsmen, Road Surveyors, Hog Reaves and other positions were elected to see that the town would be on…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"… of a happening from my early days on Short Wharf Road. It was not an event that shaped town history and probably not more than a half dozen people…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… the Penobscot River and on the west by the Main Road (Rout 1A). Hampden’s development between 1800 and 1920 is dramatically represented by the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"… The Ocean View Hotel was located at 241 Harbor Road in Swan's Island village. What was left of it eventually became the summer home of Eric and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"… Railway Lithograph of Green Mountain Rail Road TrainGreat Harbor Maritime Museum In the 1880s railways were one of the most popular modes of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"… its government, vital records, laying out of the roads and how they dealt with the problems that arose."

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"Poor Farm City "Poor" Farm, Poor Farm Road, Hallowell, 1879Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner In a Mayor's Address from…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Baptist Church

"… building three miles south of town on the Houlton Road. The pastor at that time was Joseph Roberts. In 1880, land was purchased on the corner of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"A dam, south of the County Road (Main Street) created a millpond, which backed up under the bridge and to the north, upon which several mills and a…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s

"… 1852 at the corner of Wadsworth Street and County Road. It is now at the intersection of Route One/Main Street and Wadsworth Streets, and currently…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"As told in the letter, a corduroy road--a road of parallel logs packed with sand and laid over a swampy area--was being constructed near White Oaks."

Acton-Shapleigh Historical Society

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Alexander-Crawford Historical Society

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Allagash Historical Society

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Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society

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New Gloucester Historical Society

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