Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"… of a new transportation era in Bath and along the coast of Maine. Train service improved greatly and long waits for automobile ferries disappeared."

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

"… pollack, flounder, cod and haddock along the coast. During winter months these same men often outfitted their boats for dragging hen (sea) clams…"

Acadia National Park

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… Sound and shipped to cities along the Atlantic Coast.Mount Desert Island Historical Society Eventually things improved -- aided by such things as…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Maine State Prison

"Located midway along the Maine coast, the site had desirable access by the Georges River. One of its most desirable features was the presence of a…"

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

"… book Ships and Maritime Disasters of the Maine Coast, the ship was the largest wooden sailing ship ever wrecked off the Maine coast."

Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Champlain voyaged along this coast in 1604, naming islands as he traveled. Champlain’s early map gives this island the name “Brule-Cote,” meaning…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… other locations along Maine’s woodlands and coast. One of the most photographed events at the convention was a lobster bake and buffet held at the…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… state of Maine from Malaga Island, just off the coast of Phippsburg. It was an act motivated by economics, racism, eugenics, and political…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… land into lots and built along the immediate coast, particularly near the Royal River, named for William Royall, one of the earliest settlers of…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… forefront of a land rush in the 1760s along the coast between Castine and Calais. The population of colonial America was doubling with each…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Woodard, Colin. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. York Deeds. Vol."

Hudson Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… industry has remained healthy along the Maine coast from Kittery north including Downeast Maine."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… established themselves along the Maine coast. As early as November 1652, inhabitants of Kittery swore their allegiance to the government of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region of Maine that have been expertly assessed for the Colonial and Revolutionary eras by…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… northeast of Passamaquoddy Bay, from the Atlantic coast to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and used Champlain’s Saint Croix River as a western boundary."

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

"We have coasted in good company and under good pilotage along the rocky shore, landing for our geological discoveries even as old Champlain may have…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… alongside his father John II, made his living coasting as a schooner captain, logging Savage family land, loading his schooners with lumber and…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… audiences of 300 with a taste of Broadway on the coast of Maine. Program cover ca. 1930 All roads lead to the Surry PlayhouseSurry Historical…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… tribes in Maine were nomadic, traveling to the coast in the summer for fishing, stopping to plant crops in fertile lands along the way."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"… STORM OF 1998 In 1998 an ice storm hit the East Coast and covered it with an icy coating. The trees, cars, houses and body’s of water covered with…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"Lawrence River to the coast for trappers, loggers, factories, and now tourists and river-runners in increasing numbers."