Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… colonies, awash in wood ash, were ready to meet it. A settler could either collect and sell the plain wood ash, or they could blanch it in a large…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… Industry develops quickest where raw materials meet easy transportation and ready energy, both human and otherwise."

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"The mill employed young children and had to meet Hallowell School Board standards at its mill-run school."

Baldwin Historical Society

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Cumberland Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"He held meetings, preached, visited the sick, attended funerals and was constant in all duties that pertain to the pastor of a church at what is now…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd

"… a time when the young people on the island got to meet people from the other sides of the island. Each of the three villages had their own stores…"

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

"Ladies Aid meeting, Swan's Island, ca. 1940Swan's Island Historical Society The Redmen and their sister organization, the Degree of Pocahontas, used…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 5, pages 77-96

"… Emery Bill Bartlett Bangor Union Womens' fashion Pro Andrew Johnson meeting Spencer A. Pratt Joseph Mitchell Mutual Store James G. Wasgatt"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… own hands, declaring in their own “Leagual Town Meeting” that the (still unincorporated) town would assume the power to revoke grants to anyone who…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"61, vol. 7, pg. 401 Example of a proprietor meeting at the Royall Exchange Tavern on King Street in Boston."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Beginning with the first town meeting held at the home of Levi Newton, and then shortly after at the home of Peter Holman, town affairs were…"

Surry Historical Society

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Palmyra Historical Society

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

"… boarding houses sprang up on the island to meet the needs of housing the workers. Eva Wheaton talks about the boarding houses in her audio."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"We held a community-wide meeting in August 2008 to ascertain which exhibit topics we should focus on."

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

"… structure, the Church furnished space for town meetings, kept records of births, deaths and marriages, and collected taxes for town and parish…"

Sedgwick-Brooklin 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."

Strong Historical Society

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Windham Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… for summer plays, silent movies, dances, town meetings, school functions, and the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs meeting hall."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"… to the General Court before their January 1787 meeting.[8] Other meetings over the next several years proved unsuccessful, and this first…"

Alfred Historical Committee

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