Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"1865Maine Historical Society Six examples of Samuel Carleton’s artistic daguerreotype portraits are found in the Vickery-Shettleworth Collection."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"1855Maine Historical Society Revealing contrasts are found as well in the daguerreotypes of the cosmopolitan Deering sisters of Portland and their…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"Maine Historical Society The "Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for Other Purposes" (often shortened to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"1719Maine Historical Society The Kennebec Proprietors traced their title back to a 1629 grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society It was not uncommon to see multiple Wabanaki leaders sign deeds, or to see the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… Abenaki Sagamores to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"1800Maine Historical Society Initially, however, the primary legacy of these efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"1840Maine Historical Society Unsurprisingly, jurisdictional questions continued to plague would-be land speculators and even governmental officials…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Phippsburg Historical Society, Stories of Phippsburg, Maine, Vol. 1, 1993. Phippsburg Historical Society, Phippsburg, Fair to the Wind, 1995, Penmor…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"1860Bangor Historical Society Text by 7th grade Maine Studies students of the William S. Cohen School."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… Davis Harvesting Autumn CropsFarmington Historical Society Rich soil and the Sandy River, a source of water, travel and power lured settlers…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"1890Mount Desert Island Historical Society Text by Samuel Savage McGee and Betsy Hewlett Families on Mount Desert Island form the connecting web…"

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

"… and the Appalachian Trail by Ronald Pesha, Lubec Historical Society Who was Myron Haliburton Avery? The first 2000-miler of the Appalachian Trail."

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… Our Community Block Warden ArmbandBangor Historical Society After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Block Wardens were assigned to help carry out…"

Fryeburg Public Library

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

"& A.M. Today, it is privately owned.Strong Historical Society Masonic History Masonry first came to America from settlers who carried the tradition…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"Kineo along the shores of Moosehead Lake.Maine Historical Society The pen name “Fly Rod” first was printed in the Phillips Phonograph."

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

"Post 134Strong Historical Society Did you ever wonder what G.A.R. stands for? First of all, it stands for the Grand Army of the Republic."

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"Maine Historical Society The War of 1812 proved a trying time for the separation movement in Maine."

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

"… in which it was eventually achieved.Maine Historical Society In October, 247 delegates representing all 236 incorporated towns in the state…"

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

"… Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society For their part, as White New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"One thing made clear in the documents and historic scholarship that reference these documents, is that the settlers are considered the heart of the…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"1890New Sweden Historical Society My great grandmother Annie came from Sweden when she was six in 1895. She was born in 1889."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… from the collections of Mount Desert Island Historical Society & Northeast Harbor Library Members of the Savage family have lived in and around the…"