Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"The telephone hadn’t been invented yet, and wouldn’t be for a few more years. The two friends probably lost touch once Jacob moved to Michigan…"

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"Murphy, Marilyn. "Solomon's Store." Telephone interview. 5 Apr. 2010. "Solomon's Store, 1941". Photograph. Pictorial History of Lincoln, Maine."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Telephone Switchboard, Islesboro, ca. 1915Islesboro Historical Society Telephones came to the island c."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The inn offered “Electric Lights, Long Distance Telephone, Telegraphic Office, Saddle Horses, [and] Excellent Livery” (Wood 73)."

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

"… also improved with the advent of the telephone in the 1890s, putting islanders in touch with each other as well as the mainland."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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