Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891

"Participants went to St. Croix Lake then down the St. Croix Stream and the Aroostook River to Presque Isle, May 24-31, 1891."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Arvida Hayford, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… his pitcher of water to his office on maine st ..." Martin wrote that Hayford was a staunch Democrat and was the Indian agent for the Penobscot…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… property has a fine modern shaped house on Ohio st and grounds to correspond he is a man who always bows his head to every body he knows whether he…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… same violin received second prize at a contest in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was later exhibited on television."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… years, Acadia, the land between the Penobscot and St. Croix rivers, was inhospitable to settlement due to disputes and battles between Great…"

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… offers guarded Lindbergh's plane, "Spirit of St. Louis", in which he made his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean only two months prior."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Transportation

"… area was to travel through New Brunswick via the St. John River in Durham boats. In the 1830's the Military Road was built from Bangor to Houlton…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… Church in New York, stone for a bridge in St. Louis, and eight shiploads of paving stones for New Orleans."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks

"… Emily Morrison Sharon Mrowka Marie O'Brien Dora St.Martin Sue Souliere Britton Wolf Abbe Museum Dyer Library/Saco Museum Hudson Museum-University…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Civil War, although Acadians had lived along the St. John River since 1650 and American settlers arrived in Houlton in 1805 and 1807."

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 9 of 17

"… Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco St. Mary's Church, Biddeford, ca. 1909McArthur Public Library With the rise of industry in Biddeford…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - About Us

"… 50 district (comprising Cushing, Thomaston and St. George). Two classes of students are working to produce exhibits: one on oral histories of the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"John attended and graduated from St.Theresa's Catholic School where he received many certificates of honor and was a 1943 graduate of Mexico High…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… Border Dispute and the "Aroostook War" The Upper St. John River Valley , N. Aroostook Co., Me. and Madawaska Co., NB: A History of the Communities…"

Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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

"The earliest, the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, had opened in 1848 and later became the Grand Trunk Railway."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"“Imaginary Lines: Transcending the St. Croix Legacy in the Northeast Borderlands,” Native America and Indigenous Studies, 1.1 (Spring 2014), 49-64."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… includes several notable examples, including St. Barnabas’s Episcopal Church in Rumford of 1904 and the Hannaford Brothers Warehouse of 1919-20 in…"

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"As a Sister, Mary Consuela studied at St. Joseph’s College, Catholic University in Washington D.C., and earned both a B.S. and M.S."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"WIFE- I lived in St. George and we didn’t have running water or bathrooms or anything. Before I was 25 I had had 5 children."

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Churches in the city held open air masses to prevent infections from spreading. Schools and public places closed as well."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"Flood, Bangor, 1902 Looking down Broad st. during the flood of 1902.Bangor Public Library Flood on the Penobscot, Bangor, 1902 The Kenduskeag…"