Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"A city historic project, The Museum in the Streets, served as a impetus to this effort. The nineteen-sign, illustrated walking tour, reminded us…"

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

"Now the property is host to the credit union and its parking lot. Alameda Opera House keys, Bath, ca."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… Charles and Benjamin Vaughan, came to advance property interests inherited from Benjamin Hallowell, the Kennebec Proprietor for whom the town was…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… is a rock located somewhere on the Peter Holman property that designates the exact center of town."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… successful lawyer in Rhode Island, purchased the property and added a carriage house, a hen house with cupola, and elaborate wooden fencing in an…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… Valley, supporting merchants, loggers, truckers, property taxes, etc. Rumford itself is the commercial hub of the area, offering supermarkets…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"The Oxford Paper Co. acquired the mill properties in December of 1936, as well as water rights of the Continental Paper Bag Company."

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

"… would govern the activities and maintain the properties. The Canadian timber holdings were sold to the government; No's."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… to raise the new school on the Merrill Knight property. This school was also used for town business there for 25 years."

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

"… was able to complete the purchase of the Oxford properties from Ethyl Corp. on April 26, 1976 for a sum of 90 million dollars."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"The property now has many mature trees surrounding this beautiful structure. GUILFORD BED AND BREAKFAST X GUILFORD COMMUNITY THEATRE…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Married women could not purchase property, and husbands acquired custodial powers over property that their wives owned prior to marriage."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… is still operating today owned by Chastenay Property Management. Notice the J. K. Edes Building is shown at the right in all the photos."

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

"In the fall of 1999, some bold members of the area community, concerned that the property might be developed into house lots, formed a nonprofit…"

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

"… of timber and after the trees were harvested, the property would serve as farmland. One hundred “after divisions” were created and sixty-four…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… "back lots." The owners of these large pieces of property needed roads to get to their holdings to start cutting the valuable woodland and…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… the mistake of remaining Loyalists, and their property was confiscated after the Americans won)."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"Beyond Borders: an historical overview In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw…"

Historic Hallowell - City Marshals

"… one assault and battery, four thefts of personal property, one fast driver, one malicious mischief, one breaking and digging in street, and one…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"81-83, Maine Historical Society. 5. Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… had damaged public utilities, forestry, private property, and industries and the damage amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"This reminds me of events detailed in Saxine’s Properties of Empire (2019) where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s…"