Maine Memory Network

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"(After World War II, Mercy Hospital School of Nursing discontinued the practice, and the program remained all female until the 1960s.) When Ruth…"

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

"More on the Old Ell During World War II, following the deaths of both John C. and Emily N. Savage, the Old Ell came into the ownership of their only…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… politician, Son of Liberty, Revolutionary War figure, and all-around interesting character, Swan followed the current trend of wealthy men…"

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

"… to Europe in 1924 where he stayed until World War II. He returned to the U.S. and gave his last public performance in 1947, the same year the fire…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"They played baseball and tug of war, and held regattas in Somes Sound. Back in Cambridge during the school year, they got together for meetings…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… Society Maintaining Asticou After World War II, more people came to Mount Desert Island than had in previous generations."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… joining the US Navy as a Sea Bee during World War II, Donald met and married Marguerite Hodgkins in 1946."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"After World War II, the refrigerators were invented which took on the role of storing and making ice."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"After World War II, the refrigerators were invented which took on the role of storing and making ice."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"World War two had a minimizing effect on New Portland's population, as the class sizes tended to go down after those years."

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

"Josiah Parker, a Revolutionary War soldier came to the East Village shortly after his discharge from the Army."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… was a fraternal organization of union Civil War veterans. The youngest would have been 60 in 1911, assuming a 14 year old fighting in 1865."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"Woodrow Wilson’s Ship is Torpedoed during World War II: Woodrow Wilson: and we were on the east side of Africa…and we were on our way home…and well…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… the British won the third French and Indian War. The French, however, still claimed the territory east of the Penobscot River and endeavored to…"

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

"… classes contributed to the John Horton Civil War exhibit. The Bay School . The mission of The Bay School, rooted in the Waldorf tradition, is to…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… King family prospered before the Revolutionary War. Suspected of having Tory sympathies, Richard was harassed by the Sons of Liberty and his house…"

Skowhegan History House

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Rumford Area Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… the men leave to enlist in the Army during World War I. Amie Rancourt of Mexico went to work in the mill at the age of "not quite 15 years."…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"These cemeteries honor many war veterans and some of our founding ancestors. Although Science Hill and Eddy Cemeteries require a four-wheeler ATV to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… to them for service in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution. Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… in Ordnance Department until the close of the war. Returning to Mexico in 1865, he bought back his old store at the Corner and revived his trade."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"… the first male student to register since World War II. The once again coeducational school issued redesigned uniforms as well."