Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Soon an electric light company was set up that could handle 5,000 lamps. By 1882 Rodick House, now the largest summer hotel in America, could hold…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"My food is simple and light. I've never been able to taste meat and smoked fish, my nourishment is nothing, but Indian corn."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"Infantry and the sixth Maine Battery light artillery. To perpetuate the memory of his comrades.” The request for a gazebo was taken to the town…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The inn offered “Electric Lights, Long Distance Telephone, Telegraphic Office, Saddle Horses, [and] Excellent Livery” (Wood 73)."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… excitement, whistles blowing, parades and torch light processions. Once more we would welcome our soldiers home and once more we would live in…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"… or tannic acid from oak trees mixed with light oil. Ink could also be made from swamp maple bark and copperas."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… 10:30 at night, there would be lobster boat lights flashing all along the Neck and the boats would come in, off-load liquor, and load it onto Old…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"A light inspection of the equipment was done daily with more rigorous inspection performed twice a month by the one repair man."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

""Education is like lighting a flame in your mind." Item courtesy of the University of Maine Special Collections. X Sports taught Bill discipline."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"Print. Ser. 3. King, George R. “Lincoln Light Power CO.” Lincoln Historical Society (1993): 252-54. Print. Whig and Courier. 1887th ser."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… handsome mercantile blocks, with banks, electric lights, water systems equal to the best, and sewerage systems well under way."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"When the electric light first came in, small bulbs hung in the schoolrooms from long ropes. These made for better lighting, but its quality was still…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… of the Norridgewocks is a long and sad one in light of the fact that these people fought and lost a battle for their very existence on land they…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… a man.” With John Willard on the seat, shake your light and dainty feet O, you can do it boy! Right well we know you can Let each horse that steps…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Colby College Special Collections

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… it provided the first street and traffic lights. As the town grew, the downtown business district began to thrive."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The Grindle Point Light House was built in 1850 at the entrance of Gilkey Harbor. A keeper lived in the house to keep the lantern lit around the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… led to installation of Bath’s first traffic light at the intersection of Washington and Centre Streets in 1938."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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