Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… as funds allowed, usually about eight weeks in spring and eight in winter -- four months in all. Kids began at age six or seven, and it was common…"

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

"Running water was a seasonal affair through above-ground pipes; in the winter one needed to fetch fresh water by taking buckets down to the brook…"

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

"16) on the farm known as part of the Cold Spring Ranch. Clark Brook was named for this family. A good brickyard was located near the Clark homestead…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Each season they carried out different rituals. Spring - They would use tree bark that was peeled from trees to make containers, wigwam sheathing…"

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

"Work began and by the next spring Harold was back fishing from the Cappy. In a later diary entry, Queenie commented on the Cappy being repaired."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"After spring, the ice was shipped in sawdust to the south, Central America. Ice was even shipped away to countries like Cuba and the West Indies."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"After spring, the ice was shipped in sawdust to the south, Central America. Ice was even shipped away to countries like Cuba and the West Indies."

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

"… place) in what is today Fort Point in Stockton Springs. The entire region was quickly taken with a force of 4 companies of 100 men each, who were…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"The building was stocked and opened in the spring of 1892. John Scales died in 1923. His son Charles Scales passed away in 1934."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"In the spring of 1900, the new Bag Factory at Rumford Falls was started; in December of 1900, the bag machines from the New York plant were shipped…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… to move mammoth chunks of ice and snow during the spring flood season. View of Farmington from Titcomb Hill Farm, ca."

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

"The local school would put on Christmas and spring shows, sometimes taking stage at Chase Hall. The spirit of the town appears in the types of…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Spring gives birth to the many wild animals that frequent the hills, valleys, and woods that make up Lincoln’s 76.8 square miles: black bear…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… 1899 The defeat of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865 brought the Civil War to a close, and allowed the United States to focus on the…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"They arrived in the spring with three teenage boys and 20 head of cattle. They built a small cabin on an island that had been cleared by the Abenakis."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… as a flash flood or flood resulting from a spring thaw. These freshets battered crops, homes and mills."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"It is estimated as of spring 2009 that the church will require a 1.8 million dollar repair for it to be functional."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Beginning in the spring of 1816, town meetings on Islesboro included discussions of separation from the State of Massachusetts."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"Spring 1871: Wednesday of last week, the damage sustained by the Railroad bridge at this place during the late freshet was repaired and that night…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"In the spring of 1906, building began on a power plant at Aroostook Falls in New Brunswick to supply much-needed power to northern Maine and New…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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