Maine Memory Network

Franco-American Collection

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Maine Irish Heritage Center

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Williams, Gregory Howard, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black, 1995, Plume Books, New York."

New Sweden Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"In the fall of 1870, settlers sided the houses with planks, hewed the logs flat on the inside and filled the chinks with moss to reduce draughts, and…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"We did similar things to the Native Americans here. And, frankly, ten years after Malaga Island was destroyed, the largest Ku Klux Klan rally in the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 14 of 17

"… that 873 people were assisted either on or off the farm, and a second house had to be procured to house all the destitute people in the city."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"Huge ice-storage houses were built along the river, and the harvest was stored packed in hay as well as sawdust, which would have been available in…"

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

"… “It is true that there is a skeleton in every house, it may also be true that there is one in every heart; and God help and tenderly pity them who…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"It first opened in the Freeman House on Pool Street in 1906. A large, modern brick building was constructed on Elm Street and opened in 1911."

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"The trough cost the town fathers ~ $125. The water provided by the Bonney Aqueduct Company was proclaimed to be for both Man and Beast."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"This enabled the four families/friends to remain in close contact. By the end of 1870, this small group of 51 settlers had roughed out seven miles of…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row Street for their workers' families, a stable and two barns."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… farm, and a second house had to be procured to house all the destitute people in the city. Overseers Aaron Webber and Ebenezer Simpson reported…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy

"Most of the surviving information comes from the District of Saco custom house. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE..."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"The Colony Expands Into Neighboring Townships The town of Westmanland (just west of New Sweden) was settled in 1879 by several Swedish families."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"The natives constructed a cart and filled it with combustibles which they planned on tossing over the garrison walls."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"I had to find a way to visually portray the contrast of the islanders as they really were with the newspapers depiction of the community."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"Many of the houses on Red Row were two story houses. Most had an attic and some even had a basement. Many homes in town were also farms."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Project Partners

"… organized in 1925 and maintains the collections housed in the Capitolium, Lindsten Stuga, and Laden, as well as the monuments and old cemetery…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"The company also built a large boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"The mail had to be delivered to around 120 houses all around Stockholm from New Sweden. The Anderson Brothers Store is now the Stockholm Museum."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"They were married at their own house where my grandmother still lives. My great grandmother Annie died December 13, 1983 at the age of 94."