Maine Memory Network

City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"… Chester was producing earmuffs in a factory in West Farmington. He continued production of earmuffs until his death in 1937 – nearly 60 years –…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… traded in sugar, molasses, and lumber with the West Indies. In 1806 he became the first president of the Penobscot Bank in Bucksport."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… As settlements moved away from the coast, east-west roads were developed to intersect roads extending inland from the Boston Post Road."

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… an intense level of immigration, first of Irish and other west European workers; then later French-Canadian, east and southern Europeans."