Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… stretch of the Kennebec River and the system of river-parallel ridges on which the city is situated include crustal plate movements, river erosion…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… settlers—as well as to a new set of speculators from New York and Philadelphia, who saw land as a financial commodity more than anything else."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"… married Melinda Carlton and farmed in New York and Avon and in Freeman. He enlisted from Freeman as a Sergeant in the Company D 28th Maine Infantry…"

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."

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

"… Cerberus Capital Management L.P., a private New York-based investment firm. The paper mill has existed for over a hundred years."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… large outdoor trade shows in Boston and New York, where she advocated for the Narrow Gauge Railroad as a means of accessing bountiful fishing and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… Art Museum) X The 1844 visit of New York painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848) marked the start of Mount Desert Island’s influx of summer…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"… (Note: Brenda Voter York (and Herbert "Bussy" York) of Sandy River Farms, won the 2008 National Corn Growers' Assoc. Corn Yield Contest in Maine."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"… Carl Stinchfield, Janice Pike, Steve Pinkham, Joy York, June Flagg, Valerie Tucker, Jami Badershall, Delena Sargent, Larissa Vigue Picard, Rachel…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"Additionally, many in York County opposed separation because the current capital in Boston would likely be closer than a new capital in Maine.[15] In…"

Bridgton Historical Society

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Acts from Boston and New York were presented and included magicians, dancers, singers, musical vaudeville, acrobats and aerialists, slapstick comedy…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… 1881 she and her husband lived in Tuckahoe, New York. Later collections of her verse include Queen Catherine’s Rose which was published in 1885…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… an office in the Empire State Building in New York City to further market the ever increasing fabric offerings."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… shipped lobsters to the Fulton Fish Market in New York City and provided lobster meat to many Old Orchard Beach, Saco and Scarborough restaurants…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Abenakis.” (The Sandy River & Its Valley, Vincent York) Although the early Indian settlements were largely uninhabited by the time the first white…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… in Fall River, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Germantown, Pennsylvania. He is remembered as a prolific writer of hymns, the compiler of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… interchange with the Atlantic Shore Railroad to York County points.(5) Rising operating costs and increasing use of automobiles weakened the…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… acts contracted through Boston and New York agencies that included singing and dancing comedians, musical comedies, acrobats, comic opera, trick…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Toddy Pond itself was not a pond, but rather a river valley known as Eastern River until 1830 when dams were built to operate saw mills ."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… cities in the United States such as Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. At this time a back to the land movement of sorts emerged."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York and to Europe. So they built their own ships."