Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"… have water piped to the prison by the Camden and Rockland Water Company. Paint Shop, State Prison, Thomaston, Maine c 1900Thomaston Historical…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford

"Packard, Aubigne L. A Town That Went to Sea. Rockland: Courier-Gazette Inc., 1987. This is where we got background information about ships that were…"

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"… was taken by his father Enos Crocket, an early Rockland photographer. This daguerreotype of Johnnie Crockett remained in the family until it joined…"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… the quarry on Dix Island, in Penobscot Bay, off Rockland He was thought to have come to Hallowell with Bodwell in 1872."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… and included, until 1848, the towns of Rockland and South Thomaston. It is believed by many that the name of Thomaston was selected in honor of…"

Thomaston Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… company contracted to bring the mail daily from Rockland to Old Harbor This is a much more direct route than when it went by the way of Tremont and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… the Rickers, who acquired the Bay Point Hotel in Rockland in 1902, renaming it the Samoset Hotel. That year Wilkinson provided the Rickers with a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Soon the steamer Rockland was stopping in Southwest Harbor on its way to Machias. This was its only Mount Desert stop, and the village would become…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The Rockland, Blue Hill, Ellsworth Steamboat Company, which later became part of the Eastern Steamship Company, offered high class transportation to…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… landing was host to regular steam boat trips from Rockland, and thus began the third summer community on Islesboro."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"The Fourth Maine volunteers were from the Rockland and Belfast area were known as the Limerock Regiment. Frederick's father, Leonard W."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Rockland, Me.: The National Archives Project, 1942. (S) Pepperell Sheet Feb.1941: 24. McArthur Library Special Collections. (A) Pepperell Sheet Oct."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… that met their passengers at the railhead in Rockland. They disembarked at the wharves on Peters’ Point or Parker Point where they might be met by…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… school, or boarding with other families in the Rockland and Mount Desert Island area. Some were able to return to the island on weekends."

Westport Island History Committee

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine. Vol. II. Hallowell, 1865. This brook briefly explains about Fales' life."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… to Boston, and even a larger number running to Rockland with kiln wood. In that same Centennial Souvenir, Rev. J.D."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Snow Company shipyard in Rockland, Maine at 10 A.M on May 19, 1936. The ferryboat was christened by Miss Evelyn Randlett, who was Islesboro High…"