Maine Memory Network

Windham Historical Society

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Gorham Historical Society

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First Parish in Portland

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"The library was located in houses and stores for 46 years before the brick building was built. The actual building was started from a $7,000 donation…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… built the first construction which was the first house and first store in Lincoln. Eleven years later, in 1835, he left Lincoln and went to New…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"The Penobscot House was built in 1847 to hold steamboat passengers. The Penobscot House was a hotel located in Lincoln Center and was a stopping…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"They soon built a house on Mattanawcook Island, which is on the Penobscot River, near where the mill is today."

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… they still had money coming in to pay for their house, their crops, and feeding their animals. Ben also had sheep and cattle."

Lincoln Historical Society

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Westbrook Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"In 1838 the church underwent a major renovation by dividing the meeting house into two stories – services being held on the upper floor, and the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Keith jogged back to the house and packed his things in his shabby, green suitcase. He kissed his mother, left the house, and got in the car."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"of glass. C. H. Jenkins established his houses in 1900 with around 6,000 ft., while Howard C. Blanchard started around 1903 with over 4,000 ft."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 12 of 13

"… of grapple is more often used in potato storage houses. The grapple on the right, though, can be more easily tossed onto the barrel from the truck…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… an end to the Library or to find a new home to house the books. Catalogue of Cumberland Library, 1897Prince Memorial Library Cumberland…"

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

"They built a house and farmed land between the Royal (Wescustogo) and Cousins (Chusquissacke) Rivers, in what is now present-day Yarmouth and…"

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

"… brother Richard and his wife Ernestine were both school teachers and taught in schools away from Mount Desert Island in Maine and California…"

Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library

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New Sweden Historical Society

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Friendship Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… the Pinkham and Bennett’s stores and the Mansion House were entirely burned… the American Express Co."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… to give a wrist watch to each graduating high school senior. People also started going to the movies."

Life on a Tidal River - Resources

"Resources War Effort "Bangor High School students buy $2,748.65 in war stamps." Bangor Daily News Dec. 9, 1943, Print."