Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… Harbor, and the Baptist, on Meeting House Hill in The Center, between Somesville and Seal Cove."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"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."

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

"… for grammar, punctuation, or spelling.) Lawsons Hill Vir. 11 Oct Dear Mother, I received your epistle of the 6th, and A little fellow in it that…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"It was Located at the top of the hill about two miles east of Guilford Village and across from Guilford Industries yarn mill."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He also built sawmills and houses for different people and organizations. This topic connects to my life because I drive by Fish Hill everyday."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"Walnut Hill StoreNorth Yarmouth Historical Society Col. True's blacksmith shopCumberland Historical Society Village centers began to develop…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… one room, painted red, and stood at the top of a hill. Abbott School, Mexico, ca. 1930Mexico Historical Society One of the earliest schools…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… has traditionally been allied with the Oxford Hills school district, and continues to send both its vocational and Adult Ed students to Oxford…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… Perham, Woodland, New Sweden, Wade, Castle Hill, and Chapman. Gould was not swayed. He arranged for start-up capital for the power plant at…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Palmer Dry Goods (1868-1876) William P. Hill Dry Goods (1876-1883) Webber’s Drugstore (1883-1933) Burnham’s Auto Supply (1933-1953) Fullerton’s Radio…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… purchased land and built houses in the Walnut Hill area of North Yarmouth. In “Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine”, Rev."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… the founding of Oxford County, and Paris Hill as the county seat. The inhabitants of Plantation Number One were ordered by the treasurer of the new…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"… hockey tournaments, and on Pierson (or Ringdall) Hill they made the biggest ski jump. Ski Jumper, New Sweden, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"JHallowell residents, Jude Rice and Dr. Hill, supplied the money to build the automobile. George McClench, Frank McClench, and Charles L."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"Bogett's or Bogart's Hill, Lubec, 1934Lubec Historical Society An unnamed newspaper, possibly Eastport's, captioned the picture below: “This…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"… as 1734, limestone was quarried on Limestone Hill near the St. George River in what was later to become known as the Prison Quarry."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"The Church at Walnut Hill: a history of the First Congrgational Church, United Church of Christ. North Yarmouth, Maine. Whittier, Kathryn H., Ed."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… after our Community Meeting, team member Steven Hill, Greely Middle School history teacher, somehow managed to weave into his lesson plan a session…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Scattered farms were located just “above the hill” going towards Carthage and Weld. Joseph Mitchell and his wife “Aunt Hannah” Dillingham settled on…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"A native of Paris Hill, Hamlin moved to Hampden as a young man to practice law. A Jacksonian Democrat, he began his political career in the Maine…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… upper left of the program, lists a Automobile Hill Climbing Contest at 3:30 PM. The winner of ther "slow" high gear climb was Carleton Pike, who…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… first settled on the “Norton Farm” on Titcomb Hill in 1792 and set out the first orchard in the settlement."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… damage… Building up in the so-called Fish Hill section of Lincoln, a torrent of water swept down upon the south of the town of Lincoln, inundating…"