Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… Stapels, "you are hereby Impowered to continue & Improve on Two hundred Acres of Land in Brunswick Adjoyning to Mr."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… through possession—applying one’s labor to improve the land. This manner of claim did not rely on century-old parchment proof, and it could not be…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… to become landowners after occupying and improving the farms during that time. Thomas felt that the hard-working and pious Swedish farming families…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"… Cottage was laboriously and lovingly restored and improved in the first decade of the 21st century and remains one of the very attractive…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Play golf or tennis at the Kebo Club? Join the Improved Order of Red Men Society? Visit the Wabanaki encampment and meet real Indians? Mount…"

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"From 1802 to 1878 laws shortened working hours, improved working conditions, and increased the age of the children that were allowed to work."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… they had previously performed for Pepperell and Laconia was seen as a vast improvement to what the Overseers of the Poor had to offer. Next..."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"More expansion and improvements continue over the next fifty years. 1958: Eastern Manufacturing merges with Standard Packaging Corporation, becoming…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"It became a continuing improvement project for several years. In 1963 the public beach was dedicated in memory of the late Milton Raymond Bean, a…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… on the work begun by the GAR in establishing and improving veterans facilities. The organization spent much of its time soliciting funds for…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"… service organizations such as the Surry Community Improvement Association, the Surry Garden Club, the Arbutus Grange, and the Surry Historical…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… continue his usefulness and uplifting influence in the city which he loved and to whose civic improvement he devoted much attention and energy.”"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"A Civic Improvement Committee worked with a Boston consultant to make recommendations to rebuild and improve the city."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… unit and new therapy machine.” Other enhancements improved health outcomes for growing numbers of patients."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"… local churches, the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Association trails, and the Northeast Harbor Public Library."

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… secret....here the New England passion for self-improvement, as it was understood by the plainer folk, found its completest record.” Young Couple…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"… polish, and is sometimes added to paint to improve it’s opacity. Slate was a fine-grained, metamorphic rock, derived from clay or volcanic ash."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… cars made the export of meat possible as well as improved the condition of eggs and fruit. Hervey Lowell built up such a large egg business, that…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… in the phrase, “tradition accommodates innovation.” At least two labor saving improvements were adopted in the early 1970s that need looking at."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"But after the first of the year conditions improved rapidly. “It seems like winter is over,” wrote the January 11 issue on page 1, noting 40-45…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"Train service improved greatly and long waits for automobile ferries disappeared. Passenger and freight train traffic increased enough to justify the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… while he was Secretary of War, had settled and improved parts of the Waldo Patent, considering it their just payment for their service in the…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3

"We have had great deal of improvement in our school; we now have a middle school team and we have a Pirate Recreation program that starts our little…"