Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"The Penobscot House was built in 1847 to hold steamboat passengers. The Penobscot House was a hotel located in Lincoln Center and was a stopping…"

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… they still had money coming in to pay for their house, their crops, and feeding their animals. Ben also had sheep and cattle."

Lincoln, Maine - Workman's Hospital

"… hospital was actually in the upstairs part of a house on Lee Street. It only had two beds, so people that needed surgery had to get it done on the…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new State House. While there, he became ill and died on October 8, 1829."

Bangor Public Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor Mount Desert Island Historical Society Former state senator and Mount Desert High School star, Dennis Damon…"

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… of their duties was to monitor the darkening of houses and buildings so that the community could not be seen by bombers flying overhead."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"… President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, both of whom were Masons, assumed the chair."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… and funds were used for medical, burial, and housing expenses. Along with purchases for food and household goods, loans were given to help out the…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… the 36°30' line.[33] Initiated by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, the Missouri Compromise, as it was known, was tough to swallow for many Mainers."

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

"… in 1800 islanders voted to build two meeting houses, the Congregational on the Bass Harbor Road in Southwest Harbor, and the Baptist, on Meeting…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"The building was divided up into “houses,” generally three of them, and further, into “bays” with “rails” in them."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… Crossing the Prestile Stream Presque Isle Historical Society Presque Isle Historical Society Crossing the Aroostook River near…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"The tunnel was found because the son of the family that later bought the house fell through the ground while mowing the lawn into an abandoned tunnel."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Keith jogged back to the house and packed his things in his shabby, green suitcase. He kissed his mother, left the house, and got in the car."

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

"Later a school house was built. John Elliot had built a tavern in 1807, it had a bar and liquor was sold for 3 cents a glass."

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Mailing saves a lot of money and time. Howard Annis's Store, Lincoln, 1930Lincoln Historical Society The last reason I think the postal service…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The Maine Woods. New York: Bramhall House, 1950. Print. Vickery, James B. Made in Bangor. Bangor: Bangor Historical Society, 1984, Print."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"The welcoming of houses brought the rapid growth of mills. In the 1790s, first mills were built along the 'sluiceway' and small dams were erected to…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… constructed and the old one sold for a dollar to house a new transportation company which brought excise tax dollars and jobs; a fitness center…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… School as a child when it was still new and housed grades K-12, spoke to the gathering, recalling how the building, with it's spacious gym, had…"

Maine Conservation Corps

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Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… the two men received seventy-five commissions for houses, churches, schools, business blocks, and factories."

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"The hotel is not here today, but a new Lincoln House Motel is here. Lincoln sold the papers and Bangor sold them; those towns are still here today."