Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… airport, the Port-of-Maine Airport, opened after World War II at a site off Pleasant Hill Road. Service operations and flying schools operated at…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… a national movement that gained traction during World War I, when some Americans questioned the loyalty of immigrants to their adopted land."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… than that of other thriving areas in the Old World, and commenced to prove it by arranging his own experimental colony."

South Portland Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"An estimated crowd of 25,000 watched him defeat world champion Margaret Dillon and competitor Directum J in three consecutive heats at the Island…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… American Red Cross during both World War I and World War II. On February 22, 1955, Miss Stone was acknowledged by the Colonial Daughters Chapter of…"

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

"… sunk by a torpedo in the South Atlantic during World War II on June 2, 1942. Morse Shipyard, Water Street, Thomaston, Maine c 1940Thomaston…"

William Fogg Public Library

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Fifth Maine Regiment Museum

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Maine State Archives

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Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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National Archives at Boston

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"Soon after, Russell left to fight in World War II. Two children riding a snow horse, Swan's Island, ca."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"… faded out on Swan's Island, and were inactive by World War II. Island resident Marion Stinson speaks of the hall: "I remember just one play there…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Writer, Paul KoenigStaff. “World War II Nurse from Maine Subject of New Book.” Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal and Morning…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… million killed in the much more publicized First World War (1914-1918). In the United States, about 670,000 people died of the flu, out of a…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"… Airport After the blackout restrictions of World War II were lifted, the Port-of-Maine Airport opened at a site off Pleasant Hill Road."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… at Rumford was the largest book paper mill in the world under one roof and had a capacity of 350 tons of paper a day."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"In the southwest corner is the Monument to all Wars: Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon/Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm and Afghanistan."

Belfast Historical Society

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Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"During World War II, the reservoir was under constant surveillance against possible sabotage of drinking water sources."