Maine Memory Network

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"During World War II, the Crobb Box Company operated an ammunition case factory on Neighborhood Road. Main Street in Northeast Harbor, ca."

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."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"World War II and the army air base brought many new people into the area including Clark Gable, movie star and member of the Army Air Force, and Bob…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… before and during the Civil War and during World War II. It is for this reason that you will see simple citations for the newspapers we used in…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"… and gender in early America and the Atlantic World. At the time this essay was written (2022), Prof."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… — more than a million people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… and gender in early America and the Atlantic World, and an associate professor at Texas State University, with research and course work focused on…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"Bangor became the lumber capital of the world. boat pulling logs across Moosehead Lake X Logging started with the contractor- he selected the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Resources

"9, 1943, Print. Gilman, Robert;, and John Heide. Home Front America: Popular Culture of the World War II Era. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The World Wars put a damper on this grand expansion plan. Gould sold his controlling interest to the Canadian Pacific in the late 1940s for $225 per…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"The date is on the front of the 3 1/2 story building. The Bath Savings Institution building was first built in an Italianate style."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"The architectural style of the 2.5 story building is Italianate. The roof is a hipped roof. That architectural style was rarely seen in this area at…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"… very quickly, and extremely easily, amassed to 2,000 books. It cost about 20,000 dollars just for that room.That was more than it cost to make the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"At 2:00 AM a fire alarm was set off. The Bath Fire Company responded to the fire alarm and tried their hardest to extinguish the fire and save the…"

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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

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

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."

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"By the time World War II finally ended on September 2, 1945, 112 Bangor citizens had made the ultimate sacrifice."

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…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"More on the Old Ell During World War II, following the deaths of both John C. and Emily N. Savage, the Old Ell came into the ownership of their only…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Society & Museum Railroads: Scarborough’s World Expands Portland, Saco & Portsmouth; Boston & Maine Before the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth…"