Maine Memory Network

City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - SEE NOTES "What the book said to the Boy". Library bookmark.

"Bookmarks were distributed by librarians to patrons as a courtesy. (They still are) This example employs a verse to instruct young persons on the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Governor's Potato Plot, Presque Isle, 1959

"… Committee sponsored the cultivation and distribution of potatoes as a gift to the governors of the then just recently expanded 50 states in the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Site Resources

"Alan Sutton; Dover, N.H.: Distributed by Berwick Pub.,1994. Print. Cook, Walter L. A bicentennial look at bygone Bangor: a republication from a…"

Alexander-Crawford Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… specifically coastal and interior Maine, land distribution, and conflicts before and during Maine’s transition from a District of Massachusetts to…"

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"His formulations were distributed wholesale and retail throughout the country and as far away as Great Britain and Africa."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"Ms. McDonald was distributing the weekly pay envelopes when, according to Mitchell, they had a short verbal altercation."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"… water and rail transport speeded and increased distribution of raw materials, finished goods—and fashion news—to remote or newly settled areas."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Vessels that iced their catch could deliver to the distribution centers of Portland and Boston, bypassing the locals."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"The town got its water through a four- inch distribution line from Day Mountain Pond, but about 30 years ago, there was a landslide at the screen…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"They also help to support another 50 jobs in forest harvesting and distribution. Mt. Abram High School and four MSAD 58 schools, as well Strong town…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… but lard and flour usually came from the annual distribution of annuity goods which the state provided as part of its ongoing obligation to the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… cycles in the marsh; it is a food production and distribution system for marsh inhabitants; it is a nursery for various fish and shellfish; it is a…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… selected as a medium to not only show the spatial distribution and spatial influences of certain historical categories, such as early settlement…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"… Support towers were framed and braced to evenly distribute the load on mortared rubble piers extending from the roadbed grade down to the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Other companies processed and distributed milk, cream, and butter, and the surplus milk was used to make cheese."

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… to be gained by separation" and was widely distributed.[11] On the other side, anti-separationists argued that separation from Massachusetts would…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… Brothers”, had contracts to provide exclusive distribution rights of newspapers, tourist guides and souvenir books of travel over 5,000 miles of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… viewed the wreckage, and photographs were widely distributed. The inquiry conducted by the MCRR was reported in the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… carried this cache to eastern coastal cities for distribution across America. Bangor's river location defined its character; the lumber industry in…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… on Centre Street since 1929, and wholesale food distributer S. Prawer & Co., on Front Street just north of Summer Street since 1944, departed to…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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