Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"… under tow) for the transport of granite from St. George were employed and the walls were constructed by November 24th, 1823."

Androscoggin Historical Society

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"… Rockland, ME 1977 Albert Trowbridge Gould The St. George’s River Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME, Printer 1950 Beckett, Bradley A History of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"… Rockland, ME 1977 Albert Trowbridge Gould The St. George’s River Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME, Printer 1950 Beckett, Bradley A History of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"… Rockland, ME 1977 Albert Trowbridge Gould The St. George’s River Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME, Printer 1950 Beckett, Bradley A History of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"… Rockland, ME 1977 Albert Trowbridge Gould The St. George’s River Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME, Printer 1950 Beckett, Bradley A History of…"

City of Portland Planning & Urban Development

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"… every year since 1840 at the fair grounds on High St. It is still an agricultural fair with livestock, horse pulling, tractor pulling, an…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - About Us

"… 50 district (comprising Cushing, Thomaston and St. George). Two classes of students are working to produce exhibits: one on oral histories of the…"

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

"Jeffry, William H. Richmond Prison 1861-1862. St. Johnsbury, Vermont: The Republican Press, 1893. Narrative of Privations And Sufferings of United…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"… Short & Harmon stationary store, at 474 Congress St., where they both worked. Ms. McDonald was distributing the weekly pay envelopes when…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's Agricultural Pursuits

"Lafayette Perkins (116 Main St., now the home of Frank and Luanne Underkuffler) had gardens and grew grapes."

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

"“Imaginary Lines: Transcending the St. Croix Legacy in the Northeast Borderlands,” Native America and Indigenous Studies, 1.1 (Spring 2014), 49-64."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"The School League at the Institute had teams like St. Athanasius, coached by Rivard, St. Johns, coached by Taylor, and Chisholm School, coached by…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"John attended and graduated from St.Theresa's Catholic School where he received many certificates of honor and was a 1943 graduate of Mexico High…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… Sandy River in 1870 to the train depot on Front St. By 1879, this standard gauge railroad connected with the Sandy River Narrow Gauge Company rail…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… includes several notable examples, including St. Barnabas’s Episcopal Church in Rumford of 1904 and the Hannaford Brothers Warehouse of 1919-20 in…"

Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… many influenza cases in the Italian quarter that St. Peter’s Church opened and filled with beds for people quarantining infected relatives at home."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… lines which also included the major lines on the St. Lawrence River. While others looked toward the West and the new horizons, Hugh set sights on…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… same violin received second prize at a contest in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was later exhibited on television."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… Church in New York, stone for a bridge in St. Louis, and eight shiploads of paving stones for New Orleans."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… families in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. These families put up summer “cottages,” mansions that rivaled the finest on the…"

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

"The earliest, the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, had opened in 1848 and later became the Grand Trunk Railway."