Maine Memory Network

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

"… Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End Text by Jennifer Multhopp With images from the collections of the Lubec Memorial Library and…"

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

"… Society There was a novelty mill in the West end of town that was visited by four fires. N. S. Stowell, of Dixfield, operated it until it was…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"She was sold to the New England West Africa Trading and Shipbuilding Association, and towed from Thomaston in 1937."

Lubec, Maine - Exhibits

"Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End A Signature Quilt Updated Exhibits: 28 Feb 2012 Building the…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… constructed at Carrying Place Cove – 1.5 miles west of West Quoddy Head • Last sailing ship built in Lubec – Charles Sears 1879 • Number of active…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Lead mines were dug in West Lubec and on South Bay. War and Trade In the midst of prosperity came the outbreak of Civil War and, in 1861, over 200…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"To the left are “shooks,” the pre-cut bottoms, ends, sides and lids for boxes, as they came from a local “box mill.” On the bench is a jig with box…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… a few people took it upon themselves toward the end of the industry to record in word and photograph how the herring were turned into tasty…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"The contractor found one end of the beach was sand, uniformly graded to small stone to larger stone to very large stone on the other end."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"A summer day, after school ended for the year, created for picnics and the usually placid waters of Gardner’s Lake, east of Machias in far Washington…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… installed a major innovation, illustrated at the end of Part II. Working in the brining room Frank Van Riper, photo."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… all the way to Whiting, linking to Highway 1 and ending the storm-imposed isolation. The Lubec Herald documented the expenses in its April 12th…"

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 2 of 2

"… day in 1936 school children went to spend the end of the year by going on a boat at Gardner’s Lake. The boat flipped over."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"The parade ended with the Grange and “Am. Benefit” Float. A spectator attending the parade wearing a more modestly priced lapel pin, probably…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"From the 1880s to the end of the 20th century, Lubec and Eastport were the twin centers of this fishery industry."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"Note that the water of Johnson Bay beyond the end of the street is not visible, probably a result of fog always common in Lubec even during midsummer."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Atkins House, Jefferson Street, Bangor, 1851

"Martin drew the illustration of the west side and north end of the house as it appeared on September 25, 1851."

Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Of 1937

"… cars catapulted through the large window at the west end of the granite building. Train Wreck, Hallowell, 1937Hubbard Free Library Train…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… Museum Description The south side and west end of Third Parish Church, also known as Central Congregational Church, in Bangor are shown…"

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…"

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…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… of Passamaquoddy Bay by John Mitchell) and in the west (treaties with the Chenussio and Seneca, both Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, tribes) negotiated…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 3 of 3

"Personal Interview with Janette West Blouin, October 12, 2012 Second Annual Report, Rumford and Mexico Water District, 1914, Year Ending March 31."