Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… Colonies Nova Scotia was re-created as an independent British colony following the British “conquest” of Acadia in 1710 and removed from direct…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"A small number of affluent widows and single women were therefore among those colonists who became landowners."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Gerrity, Robert Michael. The Pejepscot Proprietors: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Absentee Land…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… Historical Society The English Civil War (1642-1651) had ramifications on all American colonies."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Lawrence estuary creating a radially flowing, independent ice cap over northern Maine. Radiocarbon dates from basal sediments of Mansell Pond…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Throughout her life Elizabeth was a very independent and financially self-sufficient woman. Elizabeth Akers Allen collar, ca."

Acadian Archives

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"… Newspapers: Bath Daily Tribune 1855-1858; Bath Independent 1879-1961; Bath Daily Times 1862-1967; Eastern Times 1850-1856; Times-Record…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"Mame was an independent character who never married, remaining single her whole life, and the house was a comfortable, albeit compact layout, for a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… document the emergence of Maine as a unique and independent entity, distinct from British colonial rule, Massachusetts, the Canadian maritimes, and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"His son, Harry Webber, the editor of the Bath Independent for a long period of time, was one of Bath’s most well-known citizens of the early and mid…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"Also, an article from Bath Independent 1919 copy noted that the early businesses included a barber shop and The Lincoln National Bank."

Belfast Free Library

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New Hampshire Historical Society

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Indians by George Washington 1783 • War of Independence ends with signing of Treaty of Paris 1789 • Louis Delesdernier appointed first collector…"

Maine State Museum

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Blue Hill, Maine - Meet Blue Hill's Project Team

"George Stevens is an independent high school grounded in a commitment to serving the area's small towns and invested in meeting the needs of each…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… with the pageantry of a Grand Parade at 1:30 on Independence Day, “to be formed at junction of School, Main and Church Sts.” according to the…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"In 1777 Allan was received by the new Congress and appointed Superintendent of the Eastern Indians, a post he held for the remainder of the war."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"During the Civil War, or War of Rebellion as it was called by the North at the time, many Islesboro men either volunteered, were drafted, paid…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… and eventually went to Hebron Academy, a small independent college preparatory boarding and day school for boys and girls in grades six through…"