Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… were often the site of city, state, or federal government events. For example, in 1889, the 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison visited Bath to tour…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great proprietors."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"For Wabanaki Nations, the Federal government is surely a better bet than the State, but it is no less beholden by its own sense of superiority and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… county by enforcing laws, conducting trials, and recording wills and deeds. These functions are separate from those of the Bath City government."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"The final treaty process was led by US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and his British counterpart Lord Ashburton, himself a former land speculator…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… and their influence within Massachusetts government itself. Two founders of the Pejepscot Proprietors, Adam Winthrop and Thomas Hutchinson, sat on…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… offer insight into struggles over who governed where, who owned what, and how they owned it."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War Resources

"Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. U.S. Quartermaster’s Dept. Roll of Honor (No. XIV). Names of Soldiers who, In Defense of the American…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"The included collections were selected because of their historical significance to what is currently Maine, New England, and the United States; the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… homes and businesses, and creating local governments, was disrupted in the third quarter of the seventeenth century by a series of conflicts with…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… and Webster was later criticized for using government funds to secretly pay for pro-treaty newspaper propaganda to sway public opinion in Maine."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"On a local level, changes in Portland city government and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan were motivated by anti-immigrant sentiments."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"… as much as the question does whether we shall be governed by foreign ideas and Policies or whether we are and will be capable of governing…"

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

"… of other official actions requesting the state government to prohibit alcoholic beverages including visiting bar owners to try to get them to stop…"

Surry by the Bay - Weathervane Dispute

"Wilson G. Smillie penned a letter to the State Commissioner of Education explaining that the flagpole had been erected in memory of a respected…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"April 10, 2013. William S. Cohen. Institute of Government & Public Affairs, University of Illinois. 2009-2013. Web. April 12, 2013. William S."

Surry by the Bay - Resources

"Varney, George J. Gazetteer of State of Maine, Boston: B.B. Russell, 1882. MANUSCRIPTS AND MISCELLANEOUS An Interview with Fred and Clifford Coggins…"

City of Portland Planning & Urban Development

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Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… at the foot of Toddy Pond in Orland, where the state boat landing is now located. In the 1880s he settled on Cunningham Ridge in Surry with his…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"On one occasion they were serenaded back to their state-run hotel where Soviet citizens were not allowed to join them in their rooms."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… shipyards in Bath and South Portland and to other states. With a population of approximately 500, Surry contributed forty people (38 males, 2…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… Cobb who was then President of the Massachusetts State Senate. “Our plantation has sent a petition to be incorporated; the name I can not like very…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The village was the geographic center with a state road running through its center featuring a town hall, grange hall, two stores, churches, a…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… homes were later transferred to the federal government. Veterans Memorial, Strong, ca. 1932Strong Historical Society The GAR also had a…"