Maine Memory Network

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Camden-Rockport Historical Society

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

"… of foods, such as butter, cheese, maple sugar and fruits. Samples of other items include: worsted hose (stockings), hats, caps, boots and shoes…"

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"Sugar was also important to making war weapons. The Ladies' Home Journal stated in one issue, "Sugar cane is needed to make molasses."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… swaying nests, insects chew the leaves for their sugar before becoming food for hungry birds, and microscopic plants and animals drift with tide…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Maple sugar was also in demand as a way to become less dependent on imported molasses and sugar from the West Indies."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… produced bags used for small groceries, sugar, coffee and tea, flour, charcoal, poultry sacks, nail and shot bags, bananas, and also bottle bags…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… he tapped his maple trees and made maple sugar and syrup for his family. Stephen Titcomb returned to Readfield to collect his family."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… than they could eat, they traded it for flour, sugar, soap, molasses, and oil. They eventually shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… trader with the West Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses and lumber principally.” He was the owner of the first ship, the schooner…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The syrup was a staple sugar source to early inhabitants; it is believed local Indians, such as Pierpole, taught the residents how to boil sap into…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… Lump Spruce," "Licorice Lulu," "Trunk Spruce", "Sugar Cream," "Four-in-Hand," and "Biggest and Best." In 1872, Curtis decided to take up cleaning…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… included coal and flour from Boston, as well as sugar, molasses, rum, guano, coffee, fruit and spices from the West Indies."