Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… eventually moved to a building on Cottage Street called the Casino. Gilman High played in Neighborhood House."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… practice in, and before that they had what we now call the “Old Gym.” But there is an even older gym that Hampden Academy once used heavily."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… of former plaster mill at “Devil’s Half Acre”, called The Lubec Packing Company 1881 – 1898 • 23 sardine factories established in Lubec • E.W."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… mostly shut down due to scarcity prompted by so called "red tide" and other forms of harbor pollution."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"Normal operations called for a train to make one round trip per day between Presque Isle and Caribou."

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… the Hobby Shoppe, a small newspaper business called Daybreak Variety owned by Elizabeth Dingley was at the location for a year."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"In the very beginning, our school was called Garland Street Junior High (GSJH). The school was built with federal WPA (Works Projects Administration)…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"However, at one point Bangor also had what was called the Bangor Plan, which allowed hotels and such to serve alcohol if they went to court and paid…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… April 10, 1903 the residents of this town were called from their beds to fight one of the most stubborn fires that had ever been known here and…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"… Society Did you know Guilford was almost called Fluvanna? That's just one of the interesting facts we learned researching the beginning of the…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… of John MacGregor for the company is now to be called the John MacGregor Company. March 21, 1909 Today is a sad day. John MacGregor has died."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… Society The important feat of this demonstration called for a man to stand on a platform one foot square at the top of the pole, forty feet from…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"It was called The Lubec Packing Company, the first among scores of factories that would eventually line Lubec’s waterfront. Soon thereafter E.W."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"Some of the spruce gums Curtis & Son made were called "American Flag," "Yankee Spruce," "White Mountain," "200 Lump Spruce," "Licorice Lulu," "Trunk…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"On another page of the ledger, Plosway is called ‘Indian Plosway’. We wonder why it was important to make note that Plosway was an Indian, but for…"

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

"… would soon connect to Water Street, sometimes called Front Street, with the sweeping curve shown below."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"At Houlton, too, and Caribou, and the town that’s called Presque Isle. The Grattan Tribe’s a game tribe, and speedy, too, as well."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Colby College Special Collections

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