Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… and formal gardens, estates reflecting their owners' wealth and rank. Soon the shoreline and hillsides were filled with estates belonging to…"

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

"… the inland acreage known as "back lots." The owners of these large pieces of property needed roads to get to their holdings to start cutting the…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"Brackley, a local business owner, donated a parcel of land on Upper Main Street, which was more than adequate for a school."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Transportation was taken over by individual boat owners, who served as an on-demand ferry system. "Sunbeam" as a car ferry, Swan's Island, ca."

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

"Store owners on the island did not always expect to make a handsome profit, sometimes giving food on semi-permanent credit when they saw neighbors in…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"It worked this way: Owners of existing canneries in Lubec and Eastport, and elsewhere, would be given shares in the syndicate and cash for granting…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… living in rows of company houses built by factory owners. Men gathered the herring from weirs, transported them to the factories, cooked the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Many of those early pew owners were some of the earliest settlers in town.Farmington Historical Society The early settlers desired higher education…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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