Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"There is only one house showing on Taylor Street. It was built by Dr. Edwin Stanley Taylor and is still there today. Hence the name Taylor Street."

Life on a Tidal River - About Us

"Doughty School Joe Pelletier, U.S. History, Bangor High School David Bergquist, Local Historian Debe Averill, Team Leader, Library/Media Specialist…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"The old West Peru School now houses a community center under the direction of the Friends of Peru Elementary School."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"This house for picker’s families was usually not as fancy as the farmer’s house. It became know in local parlance as a “picker’s shack”."

Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Former state senator and Mount Desert High School star, Dennis Damon…"

Lisbon Historical Society

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Stanley Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"Ridlon built a hotel on this land, which soon housed a post office, store, and many houses to accomodate the influx of Italian, Lithuanian, Polish…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"When my mother and father were young, their houses were made of wood and had a thatched roof. My grandmother cooked on a fire pit and got water from…"

South Portland Historical Society

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"A small office building sat below his house on East Main Street, near the house of Jonathan Cilley, at one time one of his students."

Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"Left of the tracks, the white house with the big set of barns is what is now the Lincoln Historical Society Museum."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"We know this house today as the Corro House, located on West Broadway where the Lincoln Historical Society is."

Strong Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Stairs-Beckwith Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1950

"… in Presque Isle, feature a connected barn and house, so the family could do chores without going outside in the winter The farm was built about…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… supported and employed, either in a work house or other town tenement, at the cost of the town."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Libby’s house on Transalpine Road. The house was built in 1840 by Chandler Bruce. Thomas had a house that had enough room to have two families in it…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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University of Maine at Presque Isle Library

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Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"Once, when a house caught fire in Lincoln, the train was used to transport a fire truck. The building burned, but the people were amazed at the speed…"

Bangor Public Library

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Kennebunkport Historical Society

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