Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… were going full tilt once again, a $20 million state-of-the-art yarn manufacturing facility was planned by Interface, the credit union erected a…"

Presque Isle Fire Department

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin homestead, Bangor, ca. 1864

"… his family moved into this house at 130 Center St. in Bangor in about 1852. Martin, an accountant, shopkeeper, dance enthusiast, and gardener, drew…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"He was then captured on June 24,1864, at St. Mary’s Church in Virginia. He died on October 6, 1864, in Andersonville Prison of scorbutus."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891

"Participants went to St. Croix Lake then down the St. Croix Stream and the Aroostook River to Presque Isle, May 24-31, 1891."

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… Valley served as a natural corridor from the St. Lawrence River to the coast for trappers, loggers, factories, and now tourists and river-runners…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Civil War, although Acadians had lived along the St. John River since 1650 and American settlers arrived in Houlton in 1805 and 1807."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Arvida Hayford, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… his pitcher of water to his office on maine st ..." Martin wrote that Hayford was a staunch Democrat and was the Indian agent for the Penobscot…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… property has a fine modern shaped house on Ohio st and grounds to correspond he is a man who always bows his head to every body he knows whether he…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… Border Dispute and the "Aroostook War" The Upper St. John River Valley , N. Aroostook Co., Me. and Madawaska Co., NB: A History of the Communities…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Transportation

"… area was to travel through New Brunswick via the St. John River in Durham boats. In the 1830's the Military Road was built from Bangor to Houlton…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… years, Acadia, the land between the Penobscot and St. Croix rivers, was inhospitable to settlement due to disputes and battles between Great…"

Lincoln, Maine - Roger Weatherbee of Lincoln in his P-51 H fighter plane, 1946

"and up over his home on High St. Roger was in the actual fighting of the war and flew many combat missions in a P-38 fighter plane."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks

"… Emily Morrison Sharon Mrowka Marie O'Brien Dora St.Martin Sue Souliere Britton Wolf Abbe Museum Dyer Library/Saco Museum Hudson Museum-University…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… offers guarded Lindbergh's plane, "Spirit of St. Louis", in which he made his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean only two months prior."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"Croix Island, 1797 Used by the British Secretary Ward Chapman of the St. Croix Commission (1796-1798) to help settle the dispute over the Northeast…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"They made it to the Village of St. Mary, where they rested up and attacked Quebec December 31, 1775."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."

Acadian Archives

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 9 of 17

"… Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco St. Mary's Church, Biddeford, ca. 1909McArthur Public Library With the rise of industry in Biddeford…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"Croix River (as well as its source), and deciding how to follow the long St. John (Wolostoq) River and its tributaries, which was made especially…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - JP Cilley Ledger From Post

"§ Participated in the Battle of St. Mary’s Church June 24, 1864. § Wounded at St. Mary’s Church on June 24, 1864."

John Bapst Memorial High School

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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

"John River, and state interests mobilized, especially in the US Senate, to reject the proposal, although it had other more pro-American dimensions."