Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Henry and Seth Clark were in the shipping business and operated a shipyard on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor."

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"… Salt II River Driving In Maine , Tall Trees Tough Men by R. Pike, From Stump to Ship (video), The Upper Kennebec Valley , Vol. 2, by Jon Hall"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"Ships were sent down to Boston to collect even more clothes. All the cloth was then transported to the Crosby Paper Mill in Hampden, Maine."

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… ideal wood with many uses was used for masts for ships, lobster traps, and lumber for houses. The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… 80 years.Farmington Historical Society Lowell’s Store, a general store was located in West Farmington."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"Farmers shipped their milk in large cans out of town for processing. East New Portland also was the site of the first store erected at “The Falls.”…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… with drug stores, grocers, hotels, department stores, a movie theater, bowling alley, shoe stores and other retailers providing goods and services…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1775 • Machias residents capture British ship Margaretta in the first naval battle of War of Independence 1777 • John Allan appointed…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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

"… the winter, packing them with snow in boxes and shipping them by train from Ellsworth to Boston. Some farmers hung on and there were at least five…"

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

"… the principal breeds kept, and many eggs were shipped for hatching. Shaw Bros. poultry business, established in 1895 at the old Shaw homestead at…"

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

"… submerged boxcars alongside a double-masted ship on the Penobscot River during the Bangor flood of March 20, 1902.Bangor Public Library Text by…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… store, filling station, a garage and 3 grocery stores on the main street and Lester Henderson had a small grocery store across the river on Route…"

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

"Around 1853 a general store was established in the village and a store/restaurant has operated in the original building ever since then."

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

"… produced carnations and snapdragons that were shipped by rail to markets in Boston and Bangor. The business ran from 1927-1959, operated…"

Acadian Archives

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Fog A lighthouse is more than light. Ships must be warned in conditions of fog, a ubiquitous phenomenon at West Quoddy."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"… bodies were dug up, placed in five caskets, then shipped by train to the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded where they were re-buried."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The British seized ships in the harbor and burned eight. Selectmen Patten and Bradbury, fearing that the British would burn their village, negotiated…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… a bit of a wanderer, went to sea on a whaling ship that sailed around Cape Horn. He settled in California where he transported freight up the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… Railroad in the village, to be used as a store-house for the stores. The building is to be forty two feet deep, with a street front of fifty feet…"