Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks

"A word of thanks We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for the help and support they provided to Team Biddeford and the…"

Acton-Shapleigh Historical Society

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Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"Sources: The Continental Paper Bag Company press, 1905 H. Schedler Photo Engraving, New York Kiesling Bros. Press, New York"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… in the business in 1872; relocated from New York to Portland, ME., and married Henrietta Mason of Portland."

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

"The paper mill has existed for over a hundred years. It has provided the citizens of Rumford and surrounding area a place to work, with a better than…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"He died in New York City on July 8, 1912 at age 67. SOURCES: Hugh J. Chisholm’s Magic Town, 1882-1912, by Peter A."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"First Two Machines at Oxford Mill, Rumford, ca. 1901Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Production at the new mill began on November 9, 1901…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… Road went across the Thad White Bridge, past York Hill, and on to Poplar Hill. There was a county road that went from Dixfield up to the north side…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"Higher education was later provided at Stephens High School on York Street. It was built in 1911, with additions being made in 1915, 1917 and 1931."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"Trask went with his biographer to New York where they sold the booklets for ten cents each. The sight of Mr."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills. At the same time, many East Surry men, along with…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 91-132

"… Hall that he began in Part 1, introduces New York dancer and teacher L. DeGarmo Brookes, comments on card playing, provides a program of an 1874…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"The Cotton Mill sold the machinery to a mill in Georgia. In 1903, the Cotton Mill was sold to Kennebec Realty Company."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… Barrows (1912-1999) was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1912. His father was an engineer, and his mother was an artist."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"Then he left and went to New York in 1835. He only lived in New York for five years when he died of natural causes on June 7, 1840."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"People from New York came to buy furs a lot. Furs were expensive, so Gordon’s farms went bankrupt when people stopped buying them."

Historic Hallowell - Communication

"… work well, so they took it to an automobile show in New York in the early 1900‘s. Unfortunately, not many people were interested in the product."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"Hussey's Woolen Mill, Guilford, ca. 1920Guilford Historical Society In 1917, Herbert Gray of Old Town Woolen Company purchased the south side mill…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Quarrying

"They were transported to and used mostly in Boston and New York City. While the quarry was functioning, boarding houses sprang up on the island to…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… support of the Leon Levy Foundation of New York, the Maine Memory Network's Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database launched in January…"

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"… 90 percent of their buying at the Boston and New York style shows, having not missed one for eighteen years."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… as a structural and bridge engineer in New York. George M. Coombs’s thirty-seven-year career as an architect ended with his death in 1909 at the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… principal architects, Carrere and Hastings of New York for a project in which the Stevens firm served as associate architects."