Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"94 Front Street By Kyle Hietala The Building Front Street, in Bath, Maine has been one of the most densely packed business areas throughout the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"Davenport Memorial and City Hall Text by Rebecca Black, Christie Duffy, Courtney McKinney, and Brook Mitchell 7th grade students at Bath Middle…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… With the Europeans came new diseases and colonial wars. After 150 years of these conflicts, barely 1,000 Wabanaki men, women, and children remained…"

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"But the post-war years brought some hope for the future in the form of a renewed interest in historic preservation."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… single employer, established after the Civil War, was the granite industry. For over 50 years, it employed close to 500 skilled stone cutters and…"

Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"… of Martha Ballard and great-grandfather of civil war nurse and founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton) and Benjamin Vaughan."

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… gospel interfere with politics? (No) Was the late war between the United States and Great Britain beneficial to the former? (No) The next step in…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"At the outbreak of the Civil War 1861, Agry retired. Captian Benjamin Gould House, Winthrop Street, Hallowell, 1968Hubbard Free Library Captain…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"… and George Washington’s first Secretary of War. Housed primarily in Montpelier, an elegant reconstruction of the nineteen room mansion Knox built…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Sources

"… of Artillery, and America's First Secretary of War Rockport, Me. : Picton Press, c2003 Puls, Mark Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s

"… listed in America at the time of the Civil War. Carr O'Brien Block, Upper Corner, Thomaston, Maine 2007Thomaston Historical Society O’Brien’s…"

Life on a Tidal River - Exhibits

"The seventh exhibit, Bangor and the Civil War was created during the 2011-2012 school year. The eighth exhibit, William S."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3

"… 6000 sheep on Long Island a the time of the Civil War; and fishing as there were dozens of weirs (pronounced locally as 'wares') around the shore."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Prior to the war, raw materials for building ships were sent to England. The area was heavily forested, much of it with tall pines ideally suited for…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… the Port-of-Maine Airport, opened after World War II at a site off Pleasant Hill Road. Service operations and flying schools operated at…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… killed in the much more publicized First World War (1914-1918). In the United States, about 670,000 people died of the flu, out of a population of…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… movement that gained traction during World War I, when some Americans questioned the loyalty of immigrants to their adopted land."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"… photo journalism began during the American Civil War, newspapers seldom used photography to illustrate or enhance stories until nearly seventy…"

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

"Captain Parker was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and came to the area once the war was over. Parker is noted as the second settler in town…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"He would donate a Civil War Monument to the park if it was cleaned up and the bandstand was removed. The cleanup began."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"By the end of the war 14 soldiers had been wounded, with 26 killed in battle or having died in hospital."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… for the American Red Cross during both World War I and World War II. On February 22, 1955, Miss Stone was acknowledged by the Colonial Daughters…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… Knox had ongoing problems with Revolutionary War veterans and other settlers, who, in his absence while he was Secretary of War, had settled and…"