Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"With the beginning of World War I and the new found interest in automobiles people started losing interest in Riverside Park."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… events which occurred within it during the last war with Great Britain.” (History of Penobscot County Maine with illustrations and biographical…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… and biographical sketches 1882) During the great years of lumbering in Maine, most men in Hampden worked in mills and lumber companies rather than…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"Her middle name is from her aunt, my great great aunt. Jean has lived in Maine all her life. She lived on a farm until she graduated from high school…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"After the Civil War, Aroostook County, in general, and Presque Isle, in particular, found economic prosperity in the starch industry."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The World Wars put a damper on this grand expansion plan. Gould sold his controlling interest to the Canadian Pacific in the late 1940s for $225 per…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"All of these tribal names are found in the early literature of the area, as well as the southern New England tribes' names for the Wabanakis --…"

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

"The Andrews family were the most prominent of the local granite pioneers, with the largest quarries in Biddeford, located out along the Pool Road."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Presque Isle Historical Society The highest interest in "the Fair" came in the 1920's when the local Mooseleuk Club purchased the race horse, John R."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Governor's Potato Plot, Presque Isle, 1959

"At its height, the 702nd Strategic Missile Wing employed 1200 military personnel and 300 civilians at an annual expenditure of $8 million per year."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 3 of 3

"She eats her hotdogs and watches her grandkids and great grandkids have an awesome time just she as did when she was young."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"She was great publicity! The sporting camps would give her free food and free lodging. Did you know that Fly Rod even had a specially-designed skirt…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"The students were great; they outperformed themselves." -Raymond Gaudette, President McArthur Public Library Sally captures the action during the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"During the Great Depression, the Building of the Arts began to lose revenue and slowly fell into disrepair."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"He then left the service and began working for the Matheson family in Seal Harbor and Florida. Upon the birth of Donald and Marguerite’s second child…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Welcome

"Such connections continue to take on great significance in weaving together the social fabric of the communities."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"More on the Old Ell During World War II, following the deaths of both John C. and Emily N. Savage, the Old Ell came into the ownership of their only…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"The residents of Walnut Hill built the “Great Schoolhouse” (c. 1780 ) near the Walnut Hill Cemetery on Route 115 and also used it for worship."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… halt in 1833, and, thus, fifty years after the War of American Independence had ended, the border between the US and British North America still…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"The end of the Great War brought a decrease in demand for ships and a commensurate population decrease; the Federal Census lists Bath with a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"After the Revolutionary War dignitaries visited the Chief to discuss place names and indigenous knowledge."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"The successful show ended up selling out. Another important event was the closing of the Dreamland, and the reopening as the Liberty Theater, which…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"So great was the pressure under the bridge that the water burst through the road surface, leaving a hole a yard in diameter."