Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"An engine was wanted from Bangor. The whole village was in great danger and would burn to the ground if help were not speedily had."

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

"… in her piece "On a Porch in a Maine Coast Village." Listen to "On the Porch of a Maine Coast Village" written and performed by Ruth Draper  Draper…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The Farmington Village Corporation, established in 1850, would eventually provide of a clean water system for the village; the system was developed…"

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

"Village life centered around Somesville and Southwest Harbor. It is true that after two or three years, as the young men grew older, their scientific…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… so that by 1771 twelve families had settled in a village area they called Conduskeag. The potentials of the land attracted early settlers."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… after the war, increasing the contact between the villages on the island. Swan’s Island cars were often patched-together machines that were…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"The school was a mile from Dixfield Village on the Trask Road, now known as Leavitt Street. A school building was erected on Roxbury Road and one…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… in this city for Mayor Bragg, announcing that the village of Lincoln was on fire and an engine was wanted from this city… the whole village was in…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… and townhouse erected in the township." Peru Center Ferry A horse and wagon are docking at the Peru Center Ferry landinfPeru Historical…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… and East Machias under construction 1817 • First village schoolhouse built and included meeting hall on second floor."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… of Mill Creek was located between Dark Harbor Village and Grindle Point where Islesboro’s only lighthouse was built in 1850."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… and a new one was erected at the edge of the village. Fluoride was added to the water, a new sanitary district was incorporated, and a tennis court…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… in the area of Bath, no permanent Native American villages occupied the site. And, no settlements resulted from early European explorations of the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… patrons a day, now borders the present-day Avalon Village Retirement Community off Route 1A. But memories are kept alive in the stories told by an…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… Streets, on top of the hill which surmounts the village area of Lubec, was home to Lubec School for about a century."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… in Scarborough remaining a town of separate villages, each with its own church and school. Dunstan and Portland were connected by a road inland…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"Each village has a plentiful supply of church edifices, and a high grade educational institution at which pupils are fitted for any college in the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… to the “Fairbanks” area, north of the center village and built a mill that was in operation for several decades. Haying c."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… Historical Society Bridge construction and village streets, Lubec, 1962 Lubec Historical Society But for the roadway most bridgework was…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… had lost its primary commercial center when the village of Yarmouth seceded from North Yarmouth in August 1849."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… of the employees are residents of the towns and villages in which the canneries are located. Quite a number, however, come from the islands in the…"