Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor A TALE OF BOOM AND DECLINE Text by Brook Ewing Minner and Hannah Stevens, with additional…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"More Permanent Settlers Arrive Two major waves of settlers arrived after 1768 – the first from Gloucester, Massachusetts in addition to James…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 604-650

"… Junior Martin Elmer Martin Bangor High School Division Street School Joseph E. Littlefield Bangor Girls First Select School Third Parish Church…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"… out-of-state to sell off the Biddeford and Saco "divisions" or move them down South to the textile production centers of Georgia and Alabama, where…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 7 of 17

"They were later bought by Pepperell Manufacturing Company by 1900 and became Laconia Division of the Pepperell Mills."

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

"The name is changed to the Katahdin Division of Eastern Manufacturing Company. The mill employs 250 people at this time."

Maine Forest Service

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

"… that position to the more exhalted office off division engineer, which means supervision of the designing and constructing of our sewerage system."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"Most of the freight cars traveled over the Saco Division to Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford where there was a shed for interchange with the Atlantic…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Gendered divisions of economic activity, moreover, meant that women landowners did not participate in companies’ day-to-day decision-making or…"

Oakfield Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"Sale and division to heirs of the original proprietors meant that by 1750, both the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors consisted of numerous men and…"

Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division X The practice of vaccination was met with more than a little skepticism and concern in…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"… trash incinerator in the heart of downtown, divisive politics, and an effort by the residents of the beach neighborhoods to separate themselves…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… Pepperell cloth room and paymaster of the Laconia division. When he died in 1899 he bequeathed $40,000 toward a free hospital for the people of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… Street was opened to supply stone for the Western Division Railroad built in 1872. By this time they had a railroad that stretched a mile long…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"… and manifested itself in the 1960s as a period of divisiveness, the generation gap, social and political unrest, racial tensions, and pro and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"Gendered family structures and divisions of labor shaped Wabanaki and colonial New England economies, and Indigenous and White women were essential…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"When our division went into the Battle at Fredericksburg Gen. Birney* was overheard to say to one of his Ade’s de Camp that he thanked God that he…"

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

"… in the interior back lots, known as the “after divisions.” This land was a valuable source of timber and after the trees were harvested, the…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"In August 1961, pulp from the Lincoln Division traveled into outer space as a component of the shell of a NASA balloon satellite."

Bridgton Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… shows his broad interests and reveals the deep divisions in Civil War Bangor and environs. To make the Scrap & Sketch Book more easily accessible…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… by the Boston & Maine and had become the Eastern Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad.(1) In 1935 with revenues dropping, the Maine Central and…"