Maine Memory Network

City of Portland Department of Public Works

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Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"The City then applied to the National Park Service for recognition of a 205 acre parcel as a National Historic District."

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"A State highway construction plan proposed widening Water Street to a four-lane highway, by razing all the buildings between the Kennebec River and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"Holt, Alfred T., 2000, “Bath Families of the 19th Century.” Longley, Diane G. and Whitney, Arlene L., 1996, “The People’s History of Bath…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Business Association, Main Street Bath and the City of Bath Planning Board deserve special mention for their significant contributions."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"X Biddeford, however, has other plans for itself. Residents and stakeholders from out of town have worked hard over the last 15 years or so to…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"Students attempted to fill in blank maps of the city, list as many facts as they could recall, and pose thoughtful questions on topics that they were…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"… of themes and topics in Maine history; lesson plans; a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… mill and saw mill, plotted half acre lots and planned streets as the foundation for the settlement of Fairbanks Mills."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Today's times have changed drastically, with frequent ferry service bringing mainland stores much closer, giving islanders many and varied choices of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… the approval of 7.13 miles on June 29, 1912, the city of Caribou was joined with the AVR and the line grew to service over 32 miles of the…"

Bangor Public Library

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"They didn't always agree, and this caused problems in the movement. Finally, on August 18, 1920 and after many decades of the Women's Suffrage…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"… in sports he needed the discipline to prepare, plan, work hard, and follow the established rules."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"… closed, people looked to other towns and cities for entertainment. Before World War II, most of the men in Hampden still worked within the town’s…"

Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 1 of 2

"… the participants from the various other towns and cities. Larissa Vigue Picard from the Maine Historical Society previews Maine Memory Network X…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… process, they established a Five Year Leadership Plan, the name was changed to Guilford Industries, Inc., and they purchased a California firm to…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"In November 1986 SOC made its first trip to the USSR, the Soviet Intourist Bureau controling their itinerary of performances in Tbilisi and Leningrad."

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… to be a powerful service learning project and plan to add the necessary components to make service learning a part of what the students, teachers…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… the "huge piles of charred rubble [were] gone and plans to rebuild were underway.” Today a new photography studio and art gallery neighbors a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… being so new, and Lincoln being so far from other cities. In today’s time, however, hospitals are very different."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"… on reaching Bangor to behold such a large city with its vast fleet of vessels, steamers and cars, everything that my eyes beheld was a continual…"