Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… of them could milk and he had to get one of our company to milk her for him. I have written to Willy, and shall write again this afternoon."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"… with his friends in the Second Maine, but with Company K of the Fourth Maine. The Fourth Maine volunteers were from the Rockland and Belfast area…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… little schooling but had a great idea to make a company and make the resin into chewing gum and sell it."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"By that time, Goodwin had bought a full company share and moved with his family into the Lincoln County Courthouse (built at the proprietors’…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"Fires First fire truck, Surry, 1947Surry Historical Society Surry has experienced many bad fires, including a disastrous forest fire in 1822…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… X By the mid 1980s, a municipal office and fire department had been built near the school and after that, the town continued to invest in…"

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

"McCann and Sons, a company that built fire trucks. The company was founded in Portland in 1872, and at one time was only one of seven such companies…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"The Steam and Boom Company collected all the logs and put them through a saw mill. The saw mill would make the logs in different shapes and sizes, so…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The electric company did just that in 1891. The electric company was still struggling to turn a profit and asked Gould for advice."

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

"A fire was reported to her, and she would call the fire department. When people heard the alarm in town, they would call her to ask where the fire…"

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

"In December 1966, a fire erupted at Wallace’s Garage on the corner of Main Street and Summit Road. Five major buildings, and several smaller ones…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"(In 1947 a disastrous fire destroyed the plant, and production was redirected to other plants in Maine."

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."

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

"… the north end of town to supply a reservoir for fire protection. After a drought lowered the level of Day Mountain Pond to a point below the dam…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"Wood-fired locomotives of the Narrow Gauge Railroad brought tourists and fueled other industries, giving way only when automobiles and trucks became…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"There was another fire as well; this took place in 1895. This fire was very destructive to the City of Bath."

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

"1950 Contributed by Presque Isle Fire Department Description The photograph was taken in December in the early 1950s with both the Presque…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… incorporated and Presque Isle had its first water company, the Presque Isle Water Company, which built and operated the reservoir at Mantle Lake to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"The 1947 island fire had ravaged Bar Harbor and brought an end to much of the already declining wealthy summer colony there while hardly touching the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… the entire structure was destroyed by the great fire that swept the island. It was never rebuilt. The Building of the Arts will be remembered as…"

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

"… and our adventures were recounted around camp-fires in the evening.” Charles Eliot opened his own landscape architecture business and became a…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"The fire started in a livery stable at the base of the chimney in the office. The fire could have been put out except for the break in the water line…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"The Bath Fire Company responded to the fire alarm and tried their hardest to extinguish the fire and save the building."

Surry by the Bay - Resources

"The Downing Company Publishers, 1990. Platt, David D. (editor), Penobscot The Forest, River and Bay. Island Institute, 1996."