Maine Memory Network

Biddeford Historical Society

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Old Orchard Beach Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Martin swing, Center Street, Bangor, 1864

"… "we have had gent & Ladies swing in it from New York Indianna Massachusets & many other states & all the children in the neighbourhood have had…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… at first connecting Boston to Kittery and York, then extending to Portland (then called Falmouth)."

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

"Sources Used Down Memory Lane by Emily Phillips Reynolds Mount Desert: A History by George E. Street Northeast Harbor: Reminiscences by An Old Summer…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Throughout the nineteenth century, as the lowest of these areas were filled in and Commercial Street was added to the east of Front Street, the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House

"Both owned large properties in New York, where they spent a good deal of time with their families when not at their homes in Thomaston."

Jesup Memorial Library

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Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"… traveled through rural New England and New York focusing their lenses on locally known landmarks, street scenes, country stores and businesses…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Grant Memorial United Methodist Church

"… Street, the present site of Craig Green’s New York Life. The old church, formally known as the Methodist Church, was built in 1908; the church was…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"It was built in 1911, with additions being made in 1915, 1917 and 1931. Due to the rising population, a new high school was erected on Hancock Street…"

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."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Phair House, the Bellstead and the Social Security Building

"He was born in New York in 1850. In 1856, Phair and his mother moved to Presque Isle. He built his house in Presque Isle in the 1890s on the corner…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Site Resources

"New York, N.Y.: Newcomen Society of the United States, c2000. Print. Haley, John West. The Rebel yell & the Yankee hurrah: the Civil War journal of a…"

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"Rockefeller’s 100-room “Eyrie” and New York physician Edward Dunham’s sprawling “Keewaydin” with its 35-foot-high stone tower – both in Seal Harbor."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"What was known as Trask Street at that time, now Leavitt Street, went all the way to Highland Terrace."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… came into Hallowell were from New Bedford, New York, Boston, North Yarmouth, Salem, Portland, East Port, Witheren Falmouth, Fowler Salisbury…"

Abbe Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"… of Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. 18. CMP paid $55 million in repairs. Written by Sam Moulton and Nate Stahlnecker"

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… placed advertisements in papers like the New York Times and Chicago Tribune soon created a patent medicine mail-order business that was unlike…"

Belfast Free Library

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

"… became a subsidiary of Desco Company in New York. In 1964, a night shift was added from 5pm to 10pm."

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."