Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… 30 sheep and he bought a herd of cattle every summer. He also sold his meat and hides to people in the town."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… him a barn one year and a house the following summer, where he and his bride, Eunice Knight, whom he married in 1830, settled down to raise a…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"… at Madigan” when asking permission to attend summer workshops. In the 1950s and 1960s, Mercy developed affiliations with Seton Psychiatric…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Those in summer enter the Visitor Center, long desired by the State of Maine but left to genesis of a small, local Lubec non-profit organization to…"

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

"… athletes and quickly implemented a very strong summer basketball program (something that was not real prevalent at the time) that helped develop…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Atlantic salmon could be caught in the early summer. Clans and bands would congregate for the salmon fishing when many people could be fed in one…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… Society The tissue mill remained idle during the summer months, and then another milestone in the history of the Lincoln mills occurred: Premoid…"

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

"In 1816, Maine experienced the “Year Without a Summer,” a devastating year for agriculture in which snow fell in June! Throughout the 1820s the…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Roosevelt’s long time summer home, lies 10 miles across open ocean from mainland New Brunswick. But a mere 300 yards from the U.S."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Attendance peaked at 12,000 during some summer weekends. With the beginning of World War I and the new found interest in automobiles people started…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… two-wheeled hose reel that they could use in the summer, and a sled they could use in the winter. Every year after the station was built they…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"The fall and summer are really nice and kind of breezy because of the water. Good thing there’s no ice yet, the river would freeze and I might not be…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"She spent many summers selling her wares in Rye Beach, New Hampshire. Sylvia got into a railway crash in 1933, causing her to go blind until her her…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… relieved when the family arrived the following summer. The next significant event that occurred in this area we call Skowhegan was the great…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… boys also arrived about this time and during the summer were busy raising corn and wheat and helping with the building of cabins."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"By the summer of 2000, the Skyline Farm organization and the Sowles family arranged a purchase with a conservation easement through the Royal River…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… segment of the waterfront between Broad and Summer Streets containing dilapidated buildings left over from ship-building days, was purchased but…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… the Normal School in Farmington was made in the summer of 1863, its actual establishment was postponed until the fall of 1864 due to a lack of…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"That summer under his direction, Elder Ezra Wilson and William Witham with a crew built the two abutments."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"The steamers also brought an increase in summer tourism. Celebration "The first landing of a passenger and freight steamer from the outside…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"In some summers North Haven was also included in the stops. Ruth Orcutt remembers the steamboat years with fondness, and points out, “you knew people…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… made the first clearing in the forest during the summer of 1794, cutting trees for burning and for building, while his family remained in Falmouth."