Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"General depression swept the country. Some mines never got started. In the end, even the strong companies dwindled with diminishing markets and…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, and our country going to war in 2003, the global economy slowed considerably and the effects were felt at…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Some of the stores had barber shops or pool parlors in them. Today there is still a sawmill in town."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… store, filling station, a garage and 3 grocery stores on the main street and Lester Henderson had a small grocery store across the river on Route…"

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… still exist today, with over 10,000 lodges in 26 countries. Even though the organization is well over 200 years old, their purpose still remains…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… to the great number of people serving their country, yet the giving and thoughtful spirit of the people stayed."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… there while also learning a love of horses and country life. Bonnie Smith of Yarmouth and Sheila Libby Alexander of Cape Elizabeth, riding…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country...as soon as possible..." Henry David Thoreau, 1846 The District of Maine, Commonwealth of…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… which made it easier to ship products across the country. This decreased the need of having a lumbering town that was simultaneously a seaport."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"Owners and drivers come from around the country, though the purse is smaller than some, because of its relaxed, authentic atmosphere."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… years, and many traveling teams from all over the country would play in Guilford. These traveling teams had names as colorful as the players…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… with drug stores, grocers, hotels, department stores, a movie theater, bowling alley, shoe stores and other retailers providing goods and services…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… War, deciding then to make a new start in a new country. He settled first in Hallowell, Maine, where he remained for about six years."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Around 1853 a general store was established in the village and a store/restaurant has operated in the original building ever since then."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… it, Grange chapters sprang up throughout the country. In North Yarmouth, Wescustogo Grange No. 27 was formed in 1874."

Acadian Archives

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

"… Railroad in the village, to be used as a store-house for the stores. The building is to be forty two feet deep, with a street front of fifty feet…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… tourists passing through on their way to the “up country” where fishing and hunting would be the draw."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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