Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"—(LI) O’Leary, W.M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890, 1996. Rowe, W.H."

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

"… to his family’s estate at Prouts Neck, where the sea and the cliffs in front of his studio became the subject matter of his great marine paintings."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"The sea, or hen, clam was trucked in from Wildwood, New Jersey. The hen clam became central to the factory’s operation, necessitating a need for more…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… contains lobsters, but there may also be other sea creatures and seaweed as well. Legal lobsters are transferred to a holding tank on the boat, and…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… 9, 1865, at the age of 28--perhaps that he was a sea captain explains his death away from home. Phebe was only 24."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… of the six townships, “six miles in extent on the sea coast, and no more,” Surry's coastline exceeded 20 miles."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… With the best timber harvested, men turned to the sea for their livelihood rather than leave the island."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… settlers scraped a living from the soil and the sea. Here you will still find a community of a different nature, where even strangers wave to each…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"… a hundred years ago were the concubines of sea captains and their offspring!” Needless to say, everyone in the class was surprised and dubious."

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

"… navigated this narrow but treacherous arm of the sea beginning in 1882, later supplemented by auto scows, both suddenly obsolete the day the new…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… Claremont, built by Deacon Clark's niece and her sea-captain husband a half mile from the family's wharf."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… high level canal with dams and locks instead of a sea level one like the French were trying to do. His idea would be cheaper and quicker to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… “TO THE BRAVE MEN OF FARMINGTON, who on land and sea freely offered their lives in defense of the union that they might transmit to posterity the…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… and iron framework was transported across the sea and up the tower. Assembled in place in 1857, the latest lamp using “modern” proprietary fuel oil…"

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

"… of 52 Blue Hill ship captains of the era, went to sea at 18 years of age and worked his way up to commanding clipper ships carrying gold…"

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

"… old residents and new share a strong appreciation for the values and advantages of life in a small town nestled between the mountain and the sea."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… in hard times Swan’s Islanders turned to the sea to make ends meet—fishing for their family’s food and for profit."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… the area, taking advantage of the forest and sea. Champlain voyaged along this coast in 1604, naming islands as he traveled."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… School 1980s • Growth of salmon aquaculture, sea urchin, scallop, lobster fisheries • New England Aquarium establishes Bay of Fundy Right Whale…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"For those who did not go to sea for a living, time was spent clearing, farming and tending to the cattle, hogs, sheep, goats and chickens."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"When his only remaining brother Jacob was lost at sea in 1876, Charles sold the farm to Abbie A. Curtis Dolloff, the wife of Oscar Fitzland Dolloff."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… Gilbert Hillman, a bit of a wanderer, went to sea on a whaling ship that sailed around Cape Horn."