Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… Turk (Mount Turk and Broad), Whaleback, Durham Hill, Hedgehog Hill, Pleasant, and Record are a few."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… View of Main Street Ridlonville from Day Hill, 1908Mexico Historical Society Text by Irene Hutchinson Images contributed by Mexico…"

Bangor Public Library

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Historic Hallowell - Joppa

"… Street between the business section and Loudon Hill is a part of the city known as Joppy or Joppa."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"The captains of the ships were middle class, and they lived higher on the hill. Joppa ran from Temple St. to the Vaughan Stream."

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… Stringer lived in a little house up on Academy Hill where he earned his living by making and rebottoming chairs, and manufacturing clothespins for…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"… light yellow color, and two hills known as Clark Hill and Bennett Hill. Over the years there have been many different mills and businesses that…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"… she and her bothers decided to roll down a hill in barrels. They did that because they had nothing else to do when they had eaten lunch."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Tillson Testimonial

"… education at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kents Hill. While Henry was a student, President Lincoln issued a call for 15,000 volunteers to serve…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"… at the foot of Wadsworth Street, the Limestone Hill quarry and other valuable property mortgaged to him by Lucy Knox prior to 1820, was elected as…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"Much of the town is wooded, with gentle hills that run from the borders along the river to the sea. The coast is dotted by small, rocky islands and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… throughout Biddeford, from the coast to the hills. Many of them built graceful, stately homes throughout town--some even with winter homes "in…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"… near the mouth of the river and on the large hill overlooking the harbor which would become the village of Biddeford Pool."

Guilford, Maine - RESOURCES

"… Hazel Moulton, Alfred Race, Hattie Colson, John Hill, Mrs. George Haley, Dr. Howard SPRAGUE’S JOURNAL, GUILFORD, MAINE, CENTENNIAL EDITION, 1916…"

Lincoln, Maine - Roger Weatherbee of Lincoln in his P-51 H fighter plane, 1946

"… a very low altitude, with students at the Ballard Hill School being able to look right into his cockpit, he then turned the plane upside down and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"… was located on the street that we call Norton Hill today. In winter, trains were warm and were lit with kerosene lanterns."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844

"… that the pulpit was on the western slope of a hill and that there was space to seat "ten thousand" people."

Early Maine Photography - War

"… years old, he fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill and lived to be its sole survivor, dying at 105 in 1860. Charles H. Ring, Newport, ca."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… carpentry for houses and buildings from 1856 to 1871. The Weeks family resided on such Munjoy Hill streets as Beckett, Merrill, and Vesper."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"All the kids would hook their sleds to the wagons and get a free ride up the hill. Then we would unhitch and slide back down."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… the quarrying of lime and trading at Limestone Hill and the wharves at the river. Sloops were built, making regular trips to Boston to transport…"

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"During the war, even the lights on the Thomas Hill Standpipe, which supplied the water for the city of Bangor, were extinguished, and the tower…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"Others, John Gilley of Beech Hill among them, joined the First Maine Cavalry. John did not survive. He died of his wounds in 1864, at age 45."

Historic Hallowell - Maine Industrial School for Girls

"… Girls Industrial School for Girls, Winthrop Hill, Hallowell, ca. 1919Hubbard Free Library The purpose of the school was thusly defined…"