Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… quarries in Biddeford, located out along the Pool Road. In 1866 they furnished the granite for the rebuilding of the breakwaters at the mouth of…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"… came by boat and she celebrated her birthday at sea. When she came to New Sweden it was her and her uncle. Later her mom joined them."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"New road construction projects were not always well received by property owners whose land was bisected by the new byways, and early records tell…"

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

"Phebe was only 24. Isaac is buried the Cross Road Cemetery in Surry in a row of Treworgy children who all died before their time."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"The island communities were a close-knit group, a sea-going people who fraternized with each other largely because of the isolation of island living…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… the 1800s, they shipped items to Hallowell over sea by ship. Every time they got a new shipping material(another item) the captain would write it…"

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

"… away from home in these years to make a living at sea and bring home necessities and a few small luxury items to his growing family."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… the Penobscot river their last opening to the sea and their last avenue into Canada. This obstacle to an undivided coastline was fixed upon in 1759…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The older boys in almost every family went to sea as ordinary seamen and many of them died at sea. The heyday of American shipping was from 1815 to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… have but this one short stretch of Atlantic sea-coast where a pleasant summer climate and real picturesqueness of scenery are to be found together…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… which translates to “range of mountains.” Rising sea levels over the past 10,000 years have flooded older village sites, but a combination of…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… Hotel, The Islesborough and Johnson-by-the-Sea. Soon individuals bought their own property, built family cottages and “camps,” and the Ryder’s cove…"

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

"… Bar Harbor to see their town’s boys take on the Sea Siders. MDI boys’ high school teams were now competing with town schools throughout Hancock…"

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

"Here you will still find a community of a different nature, where even strangers wave to each other as they cross paths on the roads."

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."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Lubec History Lubec: A Border Town Shaped by the Sea Text by Jennifer Multhopp With images from Lubec Memorial Library, Lubec Historical Society…"

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."

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…"

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…"