Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… investments by manning their vessels with capable officers and crews, established a Navigation School at the Academy to teach advanced mathematics…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The John Ruggles House

"Ruggles law office, stood just below to the east. His wife’s sister married the Honorable John O’Brien, who owned the marble manufactory at Mill…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 3 of 3

"Positions such as store clerks, telephonists, office clerks, secretaries, and typists were opening up (by now typewriters were common in business…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… still in existence STRAW AND MARTIN INSURANCE OFFICE This photo, taken around 1880, shows the Straw and Martin Insurance Office located on North…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"… would rely on Atlantic stores, the school, post office and church. When it was first constructed, Seaside Hall served as Atlantic's library."

Freeport Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Running the Town

"… went by before a woman served in a municipal office. In 1929 Bessie Joyce was listed as a member of the Superintending School Committee."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"In 1989, new corporate offices were built on Oak Street and a new mill store and training office was opened on Elm Street."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"In the Bath Bank building were the offices for the Sagadahock Bank and the Customs Collector. One of those customs collectors was William King, also…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"She quickly rose to 1st officer and on August 31, 1943 she was recommissioned in the WAC where she rose to the rank of Major before her release from…"

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… necessitated the construction of a new Post Office in Hallowell. His business at one point occupied an entire city block, employed 100 production…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"Dorothy worked at the racing office about the same time. Dorothy thinks one thing that has changed about harness racing is racers need to go faster…"

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

"The post offices continued in private homes without a formal name until 1837. When the newly-named Strong Post Office moved to a three-story…"

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

"By 1870, Swan’s Island had a population of 570 and was listed for the first time as a separate community in the U.S. Census."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"Taylor, a supervisor from the Bangor office, was sent to Lincoln to help instruct people on how to operate the new switchboard."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… of Major General John Thomas of Massachusetts, an officer who died the preceding June at Fort Chambly, Quebec, and who was an acquaintance of the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"The other part of his job was working in the office. He did lots of paperwork. In his last ten to fifteen years of his career, he had more…"

Stockholm Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"The stores, much like the post offices, were a meeting place for islanders to catch up on local news. Beatrice Stockbridge, Swan's Island, ca."

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… cordiality.” With this change, the Ellsworth post office was in Surry and the Surry post office was six miles away."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"By the middle 1900s there were three post offices, two in stores and the third was in its own building."

The General Henry Knox Museum

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… Bowdoinham, Richmond, and Topsham, County offices in the Courthouse include: The Emergency Movement Agency, County Commissioners Office, County…"