Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Living at the Lighthouse Not an easy life those early days, roadless dense forest isolating the early lightkeepers from the small farming population…"

Lubec, Maine - Links

"… of community members and visitors to the Lighthouse and Visitor Center, through education and displays, linking the lighthouse, community of Lubec…"

Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"… explains Almeda’s locater, South Lubec Road...the Lighthouse Road. The 1888-89 dates on this quilt indicate decades of technological progress…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… behind him, complete with a sailing vessel and a lighthouse. This setting has the look of the interior of a late nineteenth century tintype studio…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"Jacob B. Pike, photo X In the early Fifties, visitors could buy a postcard with a view looking over to downtown Lubec from the island of…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… of Hugh French and his students in the early Eighties, and of Frank Van Riper in the early Nineties showed how traditional the process was without…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… its destiny – from trade and fishing in the early years, through the prosperous era of herring processing, and into the present with efforts to…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… made in a building of the 1850s, if ever an early photographer had made to Lubec. Compare this with a photograph of the Brining Room in Part II…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"(The U.R.K.P. was disbanded in the early 1950s). The Third Battalion was located in Calais with its Company #11 in Eastport."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"These photographs were taken with an early black-and-white instant Polaroid camera. Piers under construction for bridge, Lubec, 1961 Lubec…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… Village and Grindle Point where Islesboro’s only lighthouse was built in 1850. A schoolhouse, the Creek School, located near the creek overlooking…"

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

"… boiling its fine oil to sell to watchmakers and lighthouse keepers. Wabanakis harvested their own fish and sea mammals, but lard and flour usually…"

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… villages.” (Ghere, 513) Wood Island and lighthouse, Biddeford Pool, ca. 1915McArthur Public Library Their doom was just over the horizon…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"About Us Grindle Point Lighthouse X TEAM ISLESBORO’S PROCESS From the start, Islesboro stressed student participation and community involvement."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The Town of Islesboro purchased the lighthouse from the government for $1,200, to be made into a museum dedicated to honoring seafaring men from…"