Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… some followed tradition, paddling age-old canoe routes. Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else, placing their…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… 30 acres of vacant land in Asticou spanning from Route 3 across from the Inn to northward as far as Forest Hill Cemetery, came into the joint…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"1955Mount Desert Island Historical Society Route 198 meets Route 3, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1954Mount Desert Island Historical Society During…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… seacoast and inlands by way of ancient canoe routes. Penobscot snowshoes, ca. 1850Abbe Museum With the Europeans came new diseases and…"

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

"… 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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… on land near Lower Hadlock Pond and adjacent to Route 198 that culminated in the conservation in perpetuity along a two mile corridor of Route 198…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… moved North a good distance across present day Route 3 and sited to an out-back location off Asticou Way where it stood until it was torn down on…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"The 2 1/2 mile route along Outer Winthrop Street contained wetland and a steep grade. Granite slab in transit, Hallowell, ca."

North Yarmouth Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… (which contained a Hampden cook stove), a 10’ X 10’ bedroom, and an 8’ X 10’ pantry. The second floor was open and had one window in the gable end."

Abbe Museum

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"It's open on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wednesday - Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… Avalon Village Retirement Community off Route 1A. But memories are kept alive in the stories told by an ever-shrinking population of residents who…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Necessary street realignment altered routing and residences on Lower Water and Pleasant Streets. Note the photograph to the right showing the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… on one train a day every day covering the entire route. Trains frequently consisted on 20 cars each during the winter months."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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

"… Historical Society & Museum The Thomas was en route from Norfolk to Portland with a cargo of coal."

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

"About a mile from the West Village on Route 27, on the way to New Vineyard and Farmington there is an area known as “Great Works” first called…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… Historical Society In the 1920s on State Route 15 in Guilford, a small lunchroom and filling station was opened for business known as the…"

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

"… travel lanes, where inland roads met stagecoach routes. When railroad lines were established, in later years, villages grew where train depots were…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"He claimed that he took an unusual route to the pasture. He followed a creek bed and went under a bridge because if he had been walking on the road…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Many a pioneer used the Indian route to travel from the coast, moving inland, seeking refuge from the British."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"This route also included Presque Isle. Gould traveled to his customers’ sites by cart and horse. The trip from Old Town to Fort Kent would take five…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"It is located at the intersection of Route 4 North (Main Street) and Box Shop Hill Road. His home is one of many that was built prior to 1800 and…"