Maine Memory Network

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"In order to keep families and friends together, clusters of four contiguous lots were drawn as a unit at random and provided to groups of four…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"… for land suitable to build homes for their families. Samuel chose an intervale in Embden. David continued up the brook and chose an intervale of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… who came to found a home for themselves and their families were generally without pecuniary means. Mere hangers-on were not tolerated nor did they…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"moved in the first family and three weeks later Robert Herring Jr. followed with his family. The three Bennett boys also arrived about this time and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… Desert Island lived in groups of several extended families, in houses made of birch bark. They traveled the ocean, rivers, lakes and ponds in birch…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"There is a family of Clays in our town and a girl in my class with the last name of Clay. Maybe somewhere down the line this is her relative."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The older boys in almost every family went to sea as ordinary seamen and many of them died at sea. The heyday of American shipping was from 1815 to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"The drum was in the family until it was stolen. Bodwell came to Lincoln by way of Sebec with his wife, Polly. Polly was probably born in Exeter."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… promise of earning one's keep and providing for a family lured Protasio Neri to Hallowell. Born in 1850 in Levigliani, Italy he came to America…"

Northeast Historic Film

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… for the members and picnics that included their families. The meetings were sometimes about voting rights for black veterans."

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

"… North Yarmouth There Were Two Villages Along the two country roads that passed through North Yarmouth, two village centers eventually developed."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"We shared it with one more family. The folks from Wingate would bring the generator up and we would get two hours of the generator."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… and had been brought up in a pulp and paper family. He already had a wide knowledge of the industry."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"Records show that Daniel married two more times in the early 1900s. He passed away in Farmington on August 15, 1927, and is buried in the Strong…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Lincoln, Maine - Workman's Hospital

"… to get it done on the kitchen table at their own home. In 1934, the hospital was moved to Dr. Byron Porter’s house on West Broadway, and they then…"

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

"They were all immigrant families. People would describe where he lived as the shabby part of town. There were large families living in small…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"Lura would usually walk back home after the afternoon session. But at 4:00 pm Lura hadn’t returned home. Her parents rode to town looking for her."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"Many residents felt strongly about their town, as Ethel West, a resident of South Rumford whose home was on the bank of the Mt."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Two young boys aged 12 and 16 remained all of that winter alone in the small dwelling. They trapped and hunted in order to survive and were much…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… seven houses of worship, 100 businesses, 300 homes, and two lives. More than $3,000,000 in property value was lost."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Emily Manchester operated a hand laundry business in the back of her home. She employed several workers to wash and iron the rusticators' clothing."