Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… as the lowest of these areas were filled in and Commercial Street was added to the east of Front Street, the landscape of the downtown expanded…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Watts Block

"… it was immediately rebuilt, and one of the three commercial spaces continues to serve as a Town Hall."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"The family home was behind the family's business space. Next to the family home was the business of James B."

Maine Aviation Historical Society & Maine Air Museum

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Camden-Rockport Historical Society

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

"Locally owned and developed entirely of local capital, the Portland Airport at Scarborough was deemed entirely adequate for any commercial purpose."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… Village was destined to become the population and commercial center of the town. The largest landowner, Dr."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… One of the finest views of an early Maine commercial building is the daguerreotype of the Fox Building at Middle and Exchange Streets in Portland…"

New Hampshire Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"It was one of 2 major commercial quarries on the island; the Toothacher Cove Quarry being the other one."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Its ground floor provided space for merchants, while its second level provided a large hall that hosted plays, concerts, visiting speakers, political…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… Library According to that 1911 edition of the Commercial it was the most destructive fire ever "visited upon a Maine city, save for the Portland…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… as people moved to town to fill jobs created by commercial growth. Although an era of peace, conflicts in Korea and Vietnam involved Scarborough…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… sold in the 1970s and became the site of several commercial ventures including an antique store and restaurants."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… for the science courses, and additional space for commercial courses for business, including typing."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… for North Yarmouth, since it had lost its primary commercial center when the village of Yarmouth seceded from North Yarmouth in August 1849."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Prescott Ford, A Sketch of the Discovery of a Commercially Profitable Process for the Extraction of Gold and Silver from Sea Water, Robinson Press…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… there were were additional large canneries on Commercial Street. American Can with its factory on that newer waterfront street had brought change…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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