Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - James Emery cottage, Bucksport, 1867

"… the village and located behind a number of large elms & butternut trees & surrounded by a high buck thorn hedge I observed the building I have…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 0-73

"… Eben Merrill Rebecca Raynes Charles Merrill Elm House, Bangor Thomas Finson Skinner Farm, Brewer Henry K."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington Public Library, 1916

"… the unpaved street, the wooden fences, and the elm trees, which have long since been removed, due to the Dutch elm disease, which was widespread in…"

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"Note the majestic Elm trees that lined the street, shading the houses. On the left, the first building is the Lincoln House gas station on the corner…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… later, many of these trees had succumbed to Dutch elm disease, a blight that nearly decimated every tree of this species throughout the northeast."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"1880Guilford Historical Society Elm Street Businesses, Guilford, ca. 1880Guilford Historical Society Elm Street businesses in the late 1880s."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"… to the library will be between two venerable elm trees that have stood there since the early Colonial days." Contractor F."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… Bed and Breakfast is located on the corner of Elm Street and Prospect Street. It was built between 1890 and the early 1900s."

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

"Frank Hilton and later his son Kent Sr. operated Elm Farms Dairy on Ledge Road; The O' Donnell family ran North Yarmouth Dairy in the 1930s and…"

Prince Memorial Library

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… of wood, “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the…"