Maine Memory Network

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Island Falls Historical Society

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Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Prisons and Firearms

"… fire started in the broom shop, spreading to the jail. The total amount of loss from the fire was $500,000."

Naples Historical Society

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Bangor Police Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle’s Historic Fire Station

"… court (top floor), fire house (main floor) and jail (cellar). An addition was built in 1950 to house the larger ladder trucks."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"… was a general store, barber shop, pool table, a jail cell that was really just a holding cell, bowling alley, a movie theater, and a ice cream…"

Belfast Historical Society

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"… murders before he committed suicide in an Augusta jail cell in 1925. James Mitchell James M. Mitchell arraignment, Portland, 1930Maine…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… pool hall, barber shop, variety store, town jail, and town office. Later, the top floor was removed and one end converted to a residence."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"Also, a used boxcar was once used as a jail when the police were in dire need. The railroad was important to Lincoln's history because it connected…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"Doyle went back to jail, where he was to wait for his second trial. Maine State PrisonMaine Historical Society The second trial took place in…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"It was a movie theater, basketball court, jail, town office, general store, pool hall, barber shop, and a bowling alley."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… get them to stop selling and visiting the local jail to try to get prisoners to join their cause and stop drinking."