Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"After World War II, the refrigerators were invented which took on the role of storing and making ice."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… allows you to zoom in or zoom out and see the world in a 3-D environment. When you click on these links, a file will be downloaded to your computer…"

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

"World War two had a minimizing effect on New Portland's population, as the class sizes tended to go down after those years."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"Woodrow Wilson’s Ship is Torpedoed during World War II: Woodrow Wilson: and we were on the east side of Africa…and we were on our way home…and well…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"Edgar Hoover. People from all over the world sent letters and telegrams thanking Shep Hurd for his bravery."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Candage, R.G.F. At Home Around the World. Capt. R.G.F. Candage: Autobiography . A Sailing Master’s Journal. 1911 (reprinted 2003). Candage, R.G.F."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… to ports around the United States and the world. Some of these included granite mined in East Blue Hill, lumber, ice from local ponds that was…"

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

"… Miss Adelaide Pearson, social worker, musician, world traveler, author, lecturer and founder of Blue Hill’s Rowantree Pottery."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… from the olive-drab pessimism of the First World War, in 1918 people of Guilford gathered in the square and celebrated as they burned the Kaiser in…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… rode into Dunstan on horseback with all his worldly goods packed in his saddlebags. He had come from Leicester, Massachusetts where he was born 26…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Sources: Condon, Richard H. “Living in two worlds: Rural Maine in 1930,” Maine Historical Society Quarterly 25 (Fall 1985): 58-87. Packard, Leonard O."

Maine State Museum

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

"… employed a “Chinaman” on the other side of the world to put a large flat washer on the end and screw on a large nut."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… go see the men leave to enlist in the Army during World War I. Amie Rancourt of Mexico went to work in the mill at the age of "not quite 15 years."…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… had to be combined with traits like diligence and worldly success. Martin's "Dancing Fraternity" is a detailed and fascinating look into those…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… America affected "The Lumber Capital of the World." Instability of credit and of money itself as well as the 1830s craze of land speculation all…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"… students (and nurses) until after the Second World War. Mary Elizabeth Lyden (class of ’42) remembered that “We did more than just nursing."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"… became the first male student to register since World War II. The once again coeducational school issued redesigned uniforms as well."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… perhaps the greatest attention after the Second World War. In 1948, a new School of X-Ray Technology accepted its first students, with Patricia…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Bruinius, Harry, Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity, 2006, Vantage Books, New…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Agriculture During World War I World War I began in Europe in 1914 and the U.S. entered into it in 1917."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… would be started in August when the boys from World War I returned. Recreation in Stockholm Many people in Stockholm were looking for a way to get…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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

"… Harbor in the influenza outbreak during the First World War. Mr. Totten owned a china shop. Lucy and James Bain had a variety store."