Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Toddy Pond itself was not a pond, but rather a river valley known as Eastern River until 1830 when dams were built to operate saw mills ."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after him. In Samuel Wasson's Journal of East Surry, he attributes Jonathan Flye, an…"

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

"… The Lubec Herald in July 1898: “The inlet to Mill Pond accommodated 240 accumulators of which sixty were pulled up each week."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"In the early 1900s it was called Sweets Pond. Strong students have always liked going to the lake. Class picnics often took place at cottages on the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… were held in a building in the area now known as Pond Road near Norton Hill Road Dist.# 8 - Taylor Hill was the location of another rural school…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… Pond (Little Ellis) and Silver Lake (Ellis Pond or Roxbury Pond). Before Byron was named Byron it was called Skillertown, a name the Indians had…"

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"… Historical Society As gold brought rails west, timber brought rails north. There were large amounts of untouched woods in Western Maine, but the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"The Sandy River flows into Strong from the west, tracks easterly to a point south of where the village was settled, then sweeps around a large bend…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"A tintype of a panoramic view of Round Pond by a photographer named Goodwin shows the fishing fleet in the harbor with the village beyond."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"… the junction of rail service north to Kingfield, west to Phillips, and south to Farmington. "Clin" or "C.V.", as he was better known, acquired…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"He was appointed to West Point and graduated in 1869 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US 7th Cavalry Regiment."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"3, First Range North of Plymouth Claim, West of Kennebec River (T3 R1 NPC WKR). As settlers moved to the area, it became known as Middletown and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"The ponds were stocked with over 5000 trout. Sources: Mitchell, H. E. Cumberland and No. Yarmouth register, 1904. Reprint."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"After the War many Maine residents had moved West in search of a better life or to join family members who had also migrated."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… up mineral rights adjacent to Second and Third Ponds west of town. His brother, Frederick, had noticed a peculiar color of the earth and rock at…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They traveled the ocean, rivers, lakes and ponds in birch bark canoes, making seasonal journeys to hunt and gather wild animal and plant foods."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Later, gasoline powered trucks were used until the ice harvesting operation closed down around 1950. Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Later, gasoline powered trucks were used until the ice harvesting operation closed down around 1950. Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"… link to learn more about cutting ice on Cascade Pond in Hallowell. “Ice Mania” was the name of the icing industry; by a Maine newspaper in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… lumbermen began cutting around Folsom and Upper Ponds, sending the wood down the streams for transport to the saw mill."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… over the mountain, past the west side of Worthley Pond, and continue southeast to the Sumner town line, which would then continue to the county…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"1915Islesboro Historical Society Meadow Pond, Islesboro, ca. 1900Islesboro Historical Society TURTLE HEAD AND MEADOW POND According to an…"

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

"Rumford Smith. They followed a west-north-west compass route and crossed the Sandy River at about what we now call the New Sharon Village."