Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… Mount Desert as a place “to carry on the fishing business,” Abraham Somes met the island’s “Indian Governor” near Southwest Harbor, “bought” land…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"During the 1920s, as the village grew, business on Main Street changed hands and the buildings themselves were transformed."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"… women were left to tend the farms, manage family business, care for the sick and elderly, raise children, and bear the awful news that too often…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"John sold this store business and building to his brother George in 1898, who, with the help of his father moved the structure back 75 feet from the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"He used to do a big business with birchbark frames. He didn’t have to go to Bar Harbor to sell them because people came to him.” Continue to…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Student Exhibits

"Student Exhibits Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block The Intersection of Centre and Washington Church Block Columbian Block The Customs House…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"The Patten Free Library Text by Noah Lapointe, Austin Lewis, Kyle Perry, and Shadow Stephens 7th grade students at Bath Middle School."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"Project Partners Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room: Patten Free Library and Bath Historical Society A reference room containing the resources for…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome X X What do you get when you combine local history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"… Project Resources From the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library Books & Manuscripts Baker, William Avery, 1973, “A…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"The Sagadahoc County Courthouse Text by Jared Gilliam, Emily Parker, and Kaitlyn Smith 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"Lincoln Block Text by Isla Brazier, Brody Losier, Haley Scott, and Brianna Swain 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… fire and climate, and accessible during regular business hours throughout the year. X Northeast Harbor Library, Northeast Harbor, (207)…"

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"They probably wouldn’t get the business they did when they could advertise in the local newspaper. The newspaper was a way people could also share…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… apprentice in the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, travel through Europe, and open his own landscape architecture business."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… Schools (Education), Summer Resorts (Recreation), Businesses/Cottage Industries (Land Use), Water Transportation (Transportation), and Early…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… the rail, the mill wouldn't have developed and businesses wouldn't have been attracted to the town."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel

"I think that some people shared rooms. I was busy with the cleaning while they were here. Somedays I would even have to have to do the dishes."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"… for a man named Ira Fish in 1826 in the lumbering business. Ira ended up selling Jacob land where he built a house in the mid-1830s."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - A Photo Essay of Hand Tools Found in the Swedish Colony

"There are a lot of tools that were used back in the early 1900s that we still use today. Thank you to the Stockholm Museum for letting me view the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Christmas decorations, Presque Isle, ca. 1950

"… The photograph was taken in December in the early 1950s with both the Presque Isle Police and Fire stations decorated."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… have better roads, better government, and better businesses for the town to earn money. Another feeling was pride because not many small towns had…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"In the early days, doctors had to be fetched from the mainland by boat to attend the sick. Southern islanders rowed to Lincolnville, borrowed a team…"