Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"… smallmouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, chain pickerel, minnows, lake chub, golden shiner, common shiner, redbelly dace, creek chub, white…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Elizabeth Akers chain and locket, ca. 1860Maine Historical Society In August, 1860, she married Benjamin Paul Akers."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… 1941, Sears opened its only small-town national chain branch on the north side of Centre Street, despite the small facility and limited parking."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"By 1941, six national chain stores anchored the downtown: J. J. Newberry; F. W. Woolworth; W. T. Grant; Sears Roebuck; First National Foods; and the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"W.T. Grant Co. stayed in the building until 1965. In the 1960's all chain stores left Bath and went to Cook's Corner and Brunswick."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"… spruce logs, chained together with heavy chains, called “boom chains,” and these booms were chained to the piers."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"1950s video of logging on the Chain Lakes from the collection of Roger Morrison The first thing to be built was a flume to send lumber along to the…"

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

"… at Low’s Bridge, four at Sangerville, one foot bridge and four regular bridges at Guilford Village prior to the present structure."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"The bridge has been pronounced, by those capable of judging, to be one of the best structures of the kind in this country. Much credit is due to Mr."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The innovative founders in 1776, lacking a “chain”, the tool used to measure land, staked out property lines using basswood bark, The “men measured…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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