Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"Ridlon built a hotel on this land, which soon housed a post office, store, and many houses to accomodate the influx of Italian, Lithuanian, Polish…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Second Generation & Permanent Structures at Asticou

"… returned from the battlefield and died in the Old House in 1865. Samuel Tyler Savage in his Civil War UniformNortheast Harbor Library One…"

Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus

"A Bay State Exodus Peter Clark, Jr. House, Gows Lane, Hallowell, 1968Hubbard Free Library In Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, Alan Taylor…"

Historic Hallowell - Our Journey Home

"… Home Written by Gerry Mahoney Powder House Hill, Hallowell, 1938Hubbard Free Library The history of Hallowell is one that is linked to the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Index

"… Measuring Rock - Brief History, Places Meeting House Park - Places North Church - Places People - Main Page Places - Main Page Railroad into the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Culture

"… irreplaceable by Farmington's citizens could be housed. Here is merely a sampling of the variety and depth of Farmington Public Library's archives."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad and Maine Public Service Building

"… was built by Gould in 1920 for the purpose of housing these two companies. Sources William, Arthur M. From Logs to Electricity."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Allen Building

"Allen built the Allen building in 1890 to house his practice. It was also the first post office in Presque Isle, until 1914."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Stairs-Beckwith Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1950

"… in Presque Isle, feature a connected barn and house, so the family could do chores without going outside in the winter The farm was built about…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Mall on West Main Street

"Today the Mall is bordered by houses that were built for influential citizens and sea captains of the 19th century."

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

"Sloops transported several Scotch-Irish settlers and their cattle to populate the area, and they were housed in thirty log cabins constructed between…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architecture

"… and Thomaston Historical Society The Ranlett House, Thomaston, ca. 1960Thomaston Historical Society Thomaston has long been known for the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 17 of 17

"… “It is true that there is a skeleton in every house, it may also be true that there is one in every heart; and God help and tenderly pity them who…"

Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"Left of the tracks, the white house with the big set of barns is what is now the Lincoln Historical Society Museum."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… supported and employed, either in a work house or other town tenement, at the cost of the town."

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Old York Historical Society

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Thomaston Historical Society

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Hiram Historical Society

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Fryeburg Academy Archives

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"His 1930 reconstruction of the William P. Viles House in Augusta was inspired by the classicism of the American Greek Revival style."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum Neighborhood houses and community halls had popped up in almost every village."

Historic Hallowell - The Hallowell Union Fire Club

"… 1801 because citizens didn’t want to lose their houses from fire. One of the first firefighters in Hallowell was Dr."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"… mill at Cobbossee, and built a comfortable frame house of two stories in front and one at the rear, according to the fashion of the times; and ever…"