Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"It was originally called Bucktown Plantation or Plantation No. 5. In 1793 the Massachusetts General Court chose to incorporate the town as Buckfield."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"… an Emergency Department (what today would be called an Emergency Room), although it would not be open on a 24-hour basis until 1964."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"A new blue called "electric" blue, may be the bright blue seen in Phebe Cole Townsend's crinoline dress."

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… favored for high school and college buildings, calling it “way behind the times”, “antique”, and “in grandfather’s time.” In a 1956 speech to Maine…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… began promoting a million-acre claim (later called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… the red, white and blue colors of their club, called the Champlain Society after Samuel de Champlain. This was not just a vacation, however."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… if not for the wealthy landowners (originally called rusticators) and their seasonal visits. These differences could be seen in the island's…"

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"It was 3:30 in the afternoon when I got a call from work saying I needed to come in. I hadn't seen the news yet and when I walked outside I couldn't…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"Also, loggers used an axe called the double bit axe that was very dangerous because of its two axe blades on both sides."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"Some call them examples of vernacular or folk architecture. It is all the same thing. The most important of these was the smokehouse itself."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… talked about them when describing “stringing,” calling them “ordinary dip nets” and noting they were also called “wash nets in this locality.” (P."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"But what was there beforehand? An earlier fountain, called Stork Fountain, was destroyed in 1952. It was severely damaged and rendered unrepairable…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"… President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the militia of the United States. The residents of Maine answered with enthusiasm and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"The so-called rusticators came to Blue Hill's summer colony on steamships that met their passengers at the railhead in Rockland."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"In Patten, he had a street named after him called Dearborn Street. Brody Brown "How did Ira Fish impact your life? Your future? Our future as a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"… when Osgood’s was there they had a room that was called “The Cove Room” that was for evening gowns, coats, jackets, and robes."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… the record book is dated March 20, 1855, and is a call for a meeting to “see what disposition shall be made of the books and to manage the concerns…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"Jeremy also built a mill, called Porter’s Mill, which made excelsior and other wood products. Alexander Porter homeStrong Historical Society…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"The Bangor Daily News called it “Maine’s most charming rustic theater.” It included a tea room and later a restaurant open everyday serving tea…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… Township #6 be incorporated as a town to be called Peru. This vote was certified by M. Hammond, Plantation Clerk and forwarded to Massachusetts."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"They called the Mikmaqs Souriquois, and the English called them Tarrantines. In the Presque Isle region, the Maliseets (Malecite) were the primary…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… in 1895, although the north side of town was called Upsala. Stockholm officially became a Town in 1911."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"This company also had its own store called the Veneer Hall which was used for movies and dances and meetings and church services."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… on Bingham Heirs’s Lot #67 in a hamlet they called “Asticou” at the head of Northeast Harbor in the town of Mount Desert."