Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"… the theater was owned by Mark Tuner and George Barnes of Presque Isle, and Newell Smith and Charlie Brooks of Ashland."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"He lived next door to a family who had a big barn and remembers running as fast as he could to get past the horses."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"… Buildings The Old House, Harbor Cottage, The Big Barn and the Old Ell were not the only structures in Asticou to move, expand, or morph into new…"

New Sweden Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… going to church “looked like a bird-of-paradise in a barn-yard.” From Bar Harbor Days, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, 1887. Continue to Big Thunder"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… 1929, the Surry Theater Company first opened the barn doors of the Surry Playhouse to the summer theater-going public of coastal Hancock County."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"(Surry tax records, 1878). In the old barn there were nameplates marking the inhabitants of the old stalls: Bessy, MaryAnne, Bossy."

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

"… Louise "Mame" Savage (1910-1997), while the big barn, several other properties, including Hilltop House, and about 30 acres of vacant land in…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… in the larger section that was like a one-story barn. Bickford built five more lobster boats between 1937 and 1945."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"He contracted someone to build him a barn one year and a house the following summer, where he and his bride, Eunice Knight, whom he married in 1830…"

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

"… in blue hill] and other public buildings, 15 barns and sheds, 10 stern mouldings and heads, 230 coffins and 5 stores….” Fishing."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Gordon walk out behind the barn to his car. Keith noticed a white sheet of paper out of the corner of his eye. “Hey Pa, Mr."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… meeting on Islesboro took place in 1791, in the barn of Joseph Boardman. These worshipers were Baptists, who built the first house of worship on…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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