Maine Memory Network

Phillips Historical Society

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Camp Winnebago

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943

"… Conglomerate, 1934Nylander Museum Nadeau Lake lime deposit, 1925Nylander Museum Hall's Lime Plant, Nadeau Lake, ca."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"Katahdin, Moosehead Lake, Rangley Lake, as well as various other locations along Maine’s woodlands and coast."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… feet of lumber from the land where Mattanawcook Lake would eventually be, enough to run the three saws in the two saw mills for five years."

Caribou Public Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"… and had railway tracks built from Eagle Lake to the summit of Green Mountain. Clerque also built a hotel, named the Summit House, on Green…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2

"… had a tub, which she filled with water from a lake, stream, well, or river. She would bring the tub down to these sources of water and clean the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"Though steamboats now and then were both used to carry goods and people across rivers and lakes they are not used as widely as they once were due to…"

Millinocket Fire Department

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Norcross Heritage Trust

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Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"Logs were also transported across lakes using booms. Booms were large logs attached together by a chain."

Frye Island Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… carried cargo back and forth across the Great Lakes. Three-masted "terns" were a favorite rig of Canada's Maritime Provinces."

Monson Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… head of the Connecticut River, through the Great Lakes, and the eastern border’s terminus at Lake of the Woods (the intersection of modern-day…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Project Partners

"… New Sweden, Stockholm, Westmanland, and Madawaska Lake. As part of the New Sweden School's Maine History, Local History unit, seventh and eighth…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… tidal pools or coastal caverns? Boat the bays or lakes (powered by oar, paddle, sail or steam)? Brave an island tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… as close as a stroll along a local riverbank or lake shoreline and an observant eye. The earliest Paleoindian sites in northern Maine date back to…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping

"… 110 tons; the brig Quantibacook (named for a lake in Searsmont, Maine), built in 1804 by Howland and Asa Rogers and weighing 140 tons; and the…"

Baldwin Historical Society

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Skowhegan Free Public Library

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Norway Memorial Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… including Garland Pond (Little Ellis) and Silver Lake (Ellis Pond or Roxbury Pond). Before Byron was named Byron it was called Skillertown, a name…"