Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"Donated equipment was used and the beach was made usable. It became a continuing improvement project for several years."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… summer experience, including walking on the stone beaches, family bon fire parties, and indoor card and board games, especially Bridge, Canasta and…"

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

"The ledges and beaches are about seven miles toward the coastline from the bouys marking the shipping lanes."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"The contractor found one end of the beach was sand, uniformly graded to small stone to larger stone to very large stone on the other end."

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

"… November 1895 in Chicago; in nearby Old Orchard Beach, competitive auto racing on the beach began probably as early as 1903.(2) The first recorded…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"… easterly tip of Pine Point through Old Orchard Beach to Hill’s Beach in Biddeford was often used."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… endure long carriage trips to visit Scarborough beaches. By the 1870s, sixty-five trains a day brought passengers and freight in and out of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"The highway continued on to the ferry at Ferry Beach; and from the ferry landing at Pine Point, the traveler would proceed on the beach to Old…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… its marsh, fresh water streams, saltwater rivers, beaches and rocky ledges, has been a site for fisheries, clam digging, lobster fishing and…"

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

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

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

"… residents to visit area amusement parks and beaches for pleasure at an affordable cost. For a period of thirty years, the Portland Railroad Company…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… in a tintype of a man seated on a bench on a faux beach with a maritime scene behind him, complete with a sailing vessel and a lighthouse."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!

"… and turns of these island lives, and find out for yourself which stories are 'history' and which live on! Fine Sand beach, Swan's Island X"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Timeline of Events

"… visits site of the Middleton shipwreck on Higgins Beach; Rodney Laughton, President of the Historical Society, talks with students about the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"They loaded on the beach or mud flat areas at Lincolnville and Gilkey Harbor. The Red Wing, owned and operated by Leroy McCorison transported cars…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"… politics, and an effort by the residents of the beach neighborhoods to separate themselves from the rest of the city further fueled this sense of…"

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

"… bark named Horace that was wrecked on Kennebunk Beach in 1838; and the Watchman, which sank fifty miles offshore with a cargo of coal."

Life on a Tidal River - Resources

"Woodsmen and Whigs: Historic Images of Bangor, Maine. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 1991. Print."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"… this panoramic vista includes tidal pools, cobble beach and ledges shadowed by fields and a mixed wood forest."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"The May School was erected for them next to their home on Upper Main Street, presently the home of Anthony Nichols."

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

"… William Roberts built a log cabin close to the beach. John Clement, a cooper, brought his family five years later."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"The GAR helped establish soldiers' homes in sixteen states and orphanages in seven states by 1890. The soldiers' homes were later transferred to the…"

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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