Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"The women packers had to work all day in the factories and then look after the children and household chores when they went home."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… family still lived on Rodick's Island, now Bar Island, where they raised sheep and spun and wove their own wool."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"The bottom tip of Factory Island and the Saco shoreline are visible on upper left. X Wildlife abounds, and includes deer, fox, and all manner of…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Flour produced by his grist mill helped provide a more varied diet for area residents. In 1832 a canal connecting Johnson Bay and South Bay was dug…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"A “machine room” and a “laboratory” were constructed. Beneath them, in the water, were placed specially constructed wooden boxes called accumulators…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Louis, and eight shiploads of paving stones for New Orleans. Carrying stone over water was sometimes perilous: stone sloops sank more readily than…"