Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"The Canadian timber holdings were sold to the government; No's. 1 and 3 Paper Machines were shut down as they were not contributing to profits."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… too faced the same dilemma as Bull as the British government withdrew permits given to settle the area until the boundary dispute had been cleared."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"Local government had been organized to conduct the affairs of the colony even before New Sweden became a plantation."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… Avery did become a lawyer with a career in government service. (Inexplicably, both the Yearbook and the Commencement Program reproduce his middle…"

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"… 1867, John's widow Laura applied to the federal government for an increase in her widow's pension."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"… was not the end of Mattie Pinette’s distinguished government career. She was hired as Chief of Employee Development in the newly created Atomic…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… out for up to a year, or "sent unto, employed and governed" in a work house. In many municipalities, the local town farm was established, giving…"

Acadia National Park

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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"Fannie also received a telegram from the government and was recognized as the beneficiary of his life insurance issued by the United States for…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… as a new state capitol that would bring state government back to Portland from Augusta. When this failed, the Excahnge became the city’s U.S."

Caribou Public Library

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Settlers were forming their own forms of governance, making do as they did in all other aspects of their lives."

Colby College Special Collections

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Early Government In 1805, riders brought official papers from Boston to Paris proclaiming the founding of Oxford County, and Paris Hill as the county…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… park creator George Bucknam Dorr worked with the government to gain enough lands and funds to eventually make Acadia National Park official in 1919."

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

"… “fireman:” selecting the right kinds of firewood, governing the level of the fires, and damping them with sawdust."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… of other early settlements and of the propietary governments, in Maine, including the provinces of New Somersetshire and Lygonia. Saco: Alex C."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… was given passage back to the States by the Irish government. Supposedly, when he finally got back to Blue Hill he walked into a funeral at the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

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

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"Aaron and his family were important to Lincoln's government. Josh Twomey "Create a statement and prove or disprove it with evidence from your…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"Our whole government and everything would be different then it is today. That is why I am happy the war happened the way it did."

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"… means that they were picked in a draft by the government, like a reserve to serve in the military."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"All states and the federal government share a minimum legal size, 3 ¼ inches carapace-length measured from the eye socket to the beginning of the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… advent of World War II and gas rationing, and the Government converted the units to housing for South Portland shipyard workers."