Maine Memory Network

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

"… around the cables every 30” secured the upper ends of ½” iron suspension rods attached at the lower end to 8” thick cedar floor beams hanging from…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… is lengthy in comparison to the three-block, east-west width of this historic downtown. Packed into this small downtown area is a wealth of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… Public Library The village of Winter Harbor - west Saco was an increasingly dangerous place to live in the 17th and 18th centuries."

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."

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."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… claim (later called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay. For these proprietors and others like them who spearheaded smaller schemes…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… Dist.# 1 - Dyar School was located on the west side of the Sandy River on the road to Farmington."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"… Ira was worried because not many people had moved west yet and many people had died while traveling west."

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)…"

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."

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…"

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."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"… hauled blocks of ice all the way to Cuba and the West Indies. Ice was covered with sawdust to prevent melting."

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 - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"… of the fort, at which time they relocated to the west side of Thomaston. Thomas Kilpatrick, who had been assigned to command the militia, rebuilt…"

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

"… looking down into the river from the bridge on West Broadway. The Lombard Steam Log Hauler Text by George King, Lincoln Historical Society Alvin…"

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

"… from the Depot grounds in West Farmington, the west end of the bridge and 9000 on this site of the new depot grounds in this village. Mr."

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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… border with a less dense colonial presence to the west, from the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River, through the Great Lakes, and the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Maple candy is documented as being made prior to 1864. The Rail Road comes to West Farmington By the 1850’s, there was “such prosperity and…"

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…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… towns: Bath, Arrowsic, Georgetown, Woolwich, West Bath, Phippsburg, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Richmond, and Topsham, County offices in the Courthouse…"