Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… was situated on the road now known as Barker Road across from Herrick Mountain Road, in New Vineyard."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… the trail to the last house, then followed a west-north-west compass route and crossed the Sandy River at about what we now call the New Sharon…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"At the Corner, West Pownal Road, set out in 1799, veers west to New Gloucester while Route 9 continues north to Hallowell."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… on the east by the Penobscot River and on the west by the Main Road (Rout 1A). Hampden’s development between 1800 and 1920 is dramatically…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… Society The Lowell homestead was on the Whittier Road, (now # 655 Whittier Road). “The orchards had 1,000 or more trees and each fall Lowell…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… had been losing its younger population to the West, divided T15-R3 WELS (West of the Easterly Line of the State) into 160-acre lots and offered…"

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"… to carry on extensive business in English and West India goods. The Honorable William King of Bath, who owned the Knox Wharf at the foot of…"

Millinocket Fire Department

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"West Peru Grammar School West Peru Grammar School, c.1940Peru Historical Society In 1991 Peru joined School Administration District 21 with…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… Townships The town of Westmanland (just west of New Sweden) was settled in 1879 by several Swedish families."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… farmers were also facing competition from the West, where crops were cheaper to grow and send east by railroad."

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

"… then South South East to the Ocean and then West South West Eight miles and then to the first Bounds mentioned: containing a Neck of Land, Water…"

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

"Mr. Mountford purchased his site at West Cumberland on the brook which is the outlet of Goose Pond around 1864, at which time it was occupied by an…"

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"… in Hallowell Blizzard, Union Street looking west, Hallowell, 1952Hubbard Free Library The blizzard of 1952 took place throughout the entire…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… saturated with businesses, entrepreneurs moved west on the County Road to open spaces. John Paine arrived in 1805 from Bristol, Maine, settling on…"

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

"… up to the present; 9000 from the Depot grounds in West Farmington, the west end of the bridge and 9000 on this site of the new depot grounds in…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… to the east, and Norway/South Paris to the west. While the region retains its rural small-town nature, inhabitants can much more easily commute to…"

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."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"Water Street looking west, Guilford, ca. 1930Guilford Historical Society HOLBROOK'S POOL HALL This is a view of Water Street, looking west, around…"

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"He built his store on the west side of the street because he knew all the farmers came into town from the north and the farmers would hitch their…"

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

"The west line, also a part of the south line of New Portland, is the county line between Franklin and Somerset counties."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"All the buildings burned on the west side except the Free Will Baptist Church. That small brick structure set back away from the road."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The Rail Road comes to West Farmington By the 1850’s, there was “such prosperity and contentment” that no one was selling their farm."