Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… to 1900 Only the gunboat “Kennebec,” built by John Hilt, was launched in Thomaston during 1861 to serve in the US Navy."

Steep Falls Library

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"Captain John Crosby (later a general) came to the area in 1775 from Woolwich. Captain Crosby is known to have participated in the Revolutionary War."

Patten Free Library

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Built by merchant John Mussey to replace an earlier block of the same name, this handsome four story brick building with cast iron fronts and window…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Thompson's Memorial

"… building and business was sold in 1971 to Lee and John Somers. They renamed it the Presque Isle Memorial Works."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Wharf, Store and Blacksmith Shop

"… on the blacksmith shop and tools, managing the business on his own account until 1805, when he turned it over it to John Gleason, Knox’s agent."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"… bricks, and 5,000 bricks, all bound for either John Brooks or Wales & Beale of Boston. Several projects that may have used those bricks were in the…"

City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

Fryeburg Public Library

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"The 900 plus seat theater was named after John R Braden, a famous local harness horse owned by the Mooseleuk Club."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861

"John Bailey to Edward E. O'Brien, Thomaston, 1861Thomaston Historical Society At the outbreak of the Civil War, shipbuilding again declined."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"Smith, John P. Flagg, Eben G. Dole, C.D. Bachelder and Captain Lawson Watts. The cotton mill was three stories high and 252’ long."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"As a boy he worked for Major John Quincy Adams Hawes, a retired Army surgeon who operated a pharmacy in downtown Hallowell."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church

"… that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ John 15:13. Christ’s torch is the light passed on as reflected in Samuel Belcher’s life and the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"Colson. About the same time, John Elliot arrived from Wiscasset and, partnered with Benjamin Metcalf of Damariscotta."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"During the 1800's a fair number of African Americans made Bangor their home. John Holyoke, a man from Brewer, was another abolitionist from the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… Hamlin, Stephen King, Charlotte Blake Brown, and John B. Curtis are among this group of noted Bangorians."

Bangor Historical Society

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Brick Store Museum

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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"Silvester Gardiner and William Brattle. Charles Vaughan, John Merrick and others were hired as land agents by the Proprietors to protect and develop…"

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"and 11:00 p.m. A poem by John McInnis is a graphic description of this historic conflagration. A significant and financially catastrophic fire…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"Arthur’s son, John, continued to carry out this process, even after the others closed, right up to 1990 when his “stand,” too, ceased operation."