Maine Memory Network

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row Street for their workers' families, a stable and two barns."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"… my dad said shut up- that’s a cargo standard he called it. Because she was a meat inspector she worked with hot dogs and one day she asked me if I…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Starbird released a series of photographs called “The Woods of Maine,” which he worked on for 20 years, between 1883 and 1903."

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

"Some call them examples of vernacular or folk architecture. It is all the same thing. The most important of these was the smokehouse itself."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… Library.” It is unknown whether the meeting was called to consider an end to the Library or to find a new home to house the books."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"Jeremy also built a mill, called Porter’s Mill, which made excelsior and other wood products. Alexander Porter homeStrong Historical Society…"

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

"Samuel B. Chase built a brick Federal style house in 1831 that housed two carriage shops. The business had ramps that were used to haul vehicles…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… It was the arrival of these rusticators, as they called themselves, that would bring the biggest change to island life."

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

"It has also been called “The Falls” because of waterpower created by the river and the rocks and ledges located here."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… Telegram, Sunday June 11, 1939 Big House Little House Back House Barn. Thomas C. Hubka, University Press of New England, 1984 Eastern Argus, May…"

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"It was 3:30 in the afternoon when I got a call from work saying I needed to come in. I hadn't seen the news yet and when I walked outside I couldn't…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… building, he opened a small drug store in 1875, called the Hobart Block. It was located on the north end of the bridge."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… the first steamboats that traveled to Lincoln was called “Governor Neptune,” named after John Neptune, Governor of the Penobscot Native American…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"… after Sylvia’s death, Francis built a structure called the Casino Building, located between the Catholic Church and the Stanislaus home."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"Every kind of paper bag called for was produced: from the tiny bag in which a few ounces of candy can be dropped, to the great banana bag which will…"

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… charity care—had what a 1968 hospital publication called “social problems” and that they often returned to Mercy after their discharge “to see a…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… land and built a log house near what is now called Bounty Cove, mid-point on the island near the Narrows."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"First Settlers Merrill Knight House Merrill Knight's house built in 1810 is still a home in 2013, Peru Historical Society Merrill Knight made…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"On another page of the ledger, Plosway is called ‘Indian Plosway’. We wonder why it was important to make note that Plosway was an Indian, but for…"

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

"New residents needed a house of worship to call their own. According to the 1902 register of H.E. Mitchell, Captain Parker's residence housed the…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… water behind a dam went into a pipe and a tube called a Penstock. While it was in this tube, the water was so heavy that it turned a turbine which…"

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

"… Royall, one of the earliest settlers of this area called Wescustogo. Wilderness Origins Long before the European settlers arrived, our region of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"A call was placed to Lewiston Fire Company for aid, and by 7:10 p.m., a train loaded with firemen and equipment departed for Rumford."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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