Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Wilder's Jewelry

"The Wilder Jewelry Building goes back to 1885 and has survived two devastating fires, one in 1884 and another in 1923."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… idealized the beauty and grandeur of the natural wilderness. Cole inspired other famous artists to follow in his wake—including Frederic Edwin…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"Wiggin marveled at all that the area, including Presque Isle, had achieved in less than one hundred years."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… some fine parts, at least, of this sea-side wilderness of Maine?” -- Charles Eliot, Garden & Forest , February 19, 1890, pp."

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

"She is often referenced as a seminal influence in the work of contemporary performing artists and writers such as Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Emma…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"But by 1846 Maine State Legislature set up a Board of Education that paid the teachers’ salaries from common taxes and helped attract teachers."

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

"They would have to travel 70 miles into the wilderness in the winter. Stephen led oxen pulling a heavily loaded sled."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"Mt. Desert Island was a wilderness when these early settlers arrived, and remained such for a number of years."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Out in the wilderness all of the water was frozen, so there was no way to clean themselves. They made sweat baths or lodges, by heating stones in a…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"In the same way, he viewed the lands he held in the Waldo Patent as a possible source of income. His wastebook provides ample evidence of this…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"In his book Wilderness Adventures, William said this about Joe: “There is no better guide for the woods than a man who has lived and been brought up…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"Chisholm and the future of the wilderness town of Rumford. Rumford Falls Looking South, 1916Greater Rumford Area Historical Society It took…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"Wilderness Origins Long before the European settlers arrived, our region of Maine was home to members of the Abenaki tribe, who, together with the…"

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

"“Oasis of Wilderness.” Down East, September 1995 Lamson-Scribner, F. “Grasses of a Salt Marsh.” Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Karr, Paul and Jeff Clark. "Oasis of Wilderness." Down East Magazine, September, 1995. Leamon, James S."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"This exhibit is a brief history of how that wilderness was transformed by the creation of roads that we so often take for granted."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 8, pages 135-150

"Blake Cornelius Driscoll Philadelphia Convention George W. Ladd President Johnson Annie Martin performance Solon Wilder Men smoking"

Salmon Brook Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Our Journey Home

"The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make it more than a place to live -- their dream was to build a commercial and cultural…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin gymnastic costume, Bangor, 1864

"Martin wrote that in other years, the performance had been mostly singing, but in 1864, 26 of his 400 students performed the gymnastics they had…"

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin as zephyr, Bangor, 1866

"They sang a song that began "Pretty little zephyrs we, Swiftly through the air we bound, Throwing blossoms all around," as they threw flower petals…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"The first mail route to Strong was established in 1819. These men rode through the villages on horseback with their mailbags."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 3, pages 38-56

"… Nath Harlow nursery Apple tree Ada Martin Solon Wilder Egyptian Caravan Southern sentiments Yales Mammoth Tent Penobscot County Democratic…"