Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… County on the midcoast of Maine dividing East and West Penobscot Bays. Early settlers arrived by various seacraft (or by sleigh over frozen water)…"

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 - Expansion

"At the corner of Elm Street West and the Main Road, Crosby and Stetson built a large brick warehouse (Hampden Historical Society 1976)."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"… Crosby’s warehouse at the corner of Elm Street West and the Main Road. The British left a cannon ball hole in the warehouse and pillaged the town."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"George or Georges River, where it bends west for a short distance before heading north and inland some 40 miles to the village of Warren and beyond."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"… and an apple orchard was established just west of the building. Colonists also noted that the first song birds (robins, sparrows, chickadees)…"

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

"… Jr., Esq., was given the task of mapping the west side of Mount Desert Island, to settle conflicting claims to land ownership.Mount Desert Island…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"At the corner of Elm Street West and the Main Road, Crosby and Stetson built a large brick warehouse (Hampden Historical Society 1976)."

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… name of Bradstreet Ford Sales was organized on West Broadway. The grand opening was held on March 10, 1960."

Westport Island History Committee

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… out of that fix.” Main Street looking west, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1900Northeast Harbor Library Percy Hill had a jewelry and optical shop and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… and this initiated the building of the military road between Houlton and Bangor—this same road connected to Presque Isle in 1839."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"He was an early trader with the West Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses and lumber principally.” He was the owner of the first ship, the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… was short lived, however; the bounty of land out West drew away many Maine farmers, and the Civil War (1860-1864) marked an end to the age of East…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… where he first helped operate two hospitals, on West Broadway. The hospitals were the Stratton Hospital and the Margaret Workman Hospital. Dr."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… tools or dried corn from groups to the south and west that grew crops where the climate was more favorable for horticulture."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… Society The Blue Hill Country Club, on the west side of the inner harbor, began at the turn of the twentieth century."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"In 1826, Ira built the first house on West Broadway. He used the house as a boarding house for men working at the sawmill and working in lumbering."

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

"… Under the Ledge, and this became the “North West Congregational Society of North Yarmouth.” In these early years, the Second Church services…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… Androscoggin Rivers, and spread out along lands west of Casco Bay in small family and tribal settlements."

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

"… was near what is now the corner of the Bog Road and the Long Falls Dam Road. The next was directly across the street beside the Kimball Block…"

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

"… 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 that…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Civil War Veterans, West Surry School, Surry, ca. 1890Surry Historical Society Surry paid a town bounty of $22,948 to the Union cause."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… of the first female doctors to practice in the West Coast of America. She was a very motivated woman and did many great things despite the lower…"