Maine Memory Network

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"… giving nursing care, post-op, for two or three weeks.” In the 1890s the organizations that became the American Nurses Association and National…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… a Republican, but held that office only a few weeks, resigning to return to the Senate. William Pitt Fessenden William Pitt Fessenden, ca."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"The Falmouth Gazette and Weekly Advertiser The Falmouth Gazette—the District of Maine's first newspaper—was founded by fervent separationists and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"They came back to The Sandy River area two weeks later. This time they used bateaux to travel from the Kennebec River, through ponds and streams…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… the steamship line which ran three round trips a week. A ticket for the trip from Portland, approximately 187 miles, cost $4, with an additional…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"I would work 48 hours a week and get just over 40 dollars. When I was young my father wanted me to go into carpentry so I made all my toys."

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"Weatherbee started a weekly newspaper called Gateway News. In the 1900s, the Lincoln News was called the Lincoln Chronicle and came out on Saturday."

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

"… a poor man and has been in the States but a few weeks; has a wife and five children in Canada to whom he was intending to return in about a week."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… accumulators of which sixty were pulled up each week. Thus each box was under water a month before its turn came to be examined."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"moved in the first family and three weeks later Robert Herring Jr. followed with his family. The three Bennett boys also arrived about this time and…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"Mr. MacGregor’s funeral will be a week from today and I will be going with my mother. My father is too weak to leave his bed, but he told me to send…"

Prince Memorial Library

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

"… were the first ones who stayed on the island for weeks at a time and returned regularly. Others were in the area collecting plants and insects and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"Shows ran six days a week, three shows a day. Tickets were reasonably priced and Down East Magazine described the experience at the time as…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… to 1820 the bookstore hung out a pasteboard every week or so with …a long list of wonderful novels of the great unknown...all this duly and daily…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"The factory's weekly payroll was $6,000, which was probably because they raised $1,600,000 making ladies shoes! The resources they used to make the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… have five of our own teams, and we may next week have two more from the mills. But we should want six or seven more."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… although some residents believed that a weekly poker game with youthful players may have caused the fire in the hay barn, perhaps from a carelessly…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… new Tents would come a acceptable as will A few weeks of Rest. . . Major General George McClellan General George B."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… agitators in the textile strike were busy that week, but Guilford mills operated as usual. Police and the National Guard were on hand in case of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"Also, it used to get thousands of people a week visiting the store. That is no longer true most of the time."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… not be served lobster more than three times a week Lobster Trap Branding Iron, 1961Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Lobster fishing is…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… Harpswell, this meant travelling to worship each week by boat! Understandably, they were the first town to secede from North Yarmouth."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"Fly Rod wrote her weekly columns about hunting and fishing. In the Maine Woods, Forest and Stream, The American Angler, Rod and Gun, and The American…"