Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… and iron framework was transported across the sea and up the tower. Assembled in place in 1857, the latest lamp using “modern” proprietary fuel oil…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"Sources Bangs, Carrie, “Klondike: The Gold from Sea Water Story Promoted by the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company at North Lubec, Maine”, Lubec…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"… just after leaving Wales she encountered rough seas and storms. She was forced to put into Lisbon since she was leaking badly, and an examination…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Bangs, Carrie, “Klondike: The Gold from Sea Water Story Promoted by the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company at North Lubec, Maine”, Lubec Herald…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… navigated this narrow but treacherous arm of the sea beginning in 1882, later supplemented by auto scows, both suddenly obsolete the day the new…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Biddeford's Movers & Shakers

"Though the people may be lost to time, their names live on in fable if not fact. You often hear these names in family stories or local lore, and it…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"After 2 weeks I lost 9.5 pounds, he told me I was a half pound left, but he’d let me in anyways, so that’s how I was enlisted."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"And all of a sudden- BANG. October came and everything folded and he lost every penny he had.+-"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"Many lives were lost on both sides, and for some time many of the settlers fled south away from the frontier, and most of the remaining natives fled…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"Fales was a strong-willed man who never lost hope throughout the raging war. Emerson Fales Transcription Camp of Maine 4th Near Bottoms Bridge Eight…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"Did you have many struggles? My father lost his job, and then he went to work for a rich family for 4 to 5 years."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"Main Street lost its luster as restaurants, department stores and professional offices were replaced by second-hand shops, convenience stores or…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Holiday Events

"… harbor commemorating those whose lives were lost at sea. Potato races, Swan's Island, ca. 1950Swan's Island Historical Society Swan…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men

"One, Captain John Drew, adopted the pen name “Kennebecker” and for 17 years wrote a popular column about life at sea for the Boston Journal."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"Desert show – many were lost at sea. There also were numerous craftsmen who built the necessary provisions needed to survive on this isolated island…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"… places, so that there is the appearance to one at sea, as of seven or eight mountains extending along near each other."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"That season the Bar Harbor Sea Siders lost only two games and eventually beat the team from Paris 52 - 46 for the state championship."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"It is known that local mariners Abraham Perkins and Ira Milliken had two boats built at the landing, one of them a brig named Angelina."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… men often outfitted their boats for dragging hen (sea) clams, scallops or shrimp. Stream and river fishing was recreational, as well as a source of…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"—(LI) O’Leary, W.M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890, 1996. Rowe, W.H."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… settlers scraped a living from the soil and the sea. Here you will still find a community of a different nature, where even strangers wave to each…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"When his only remaining brother Jacob was lost at sea in 1876, Charles sold the farm to Abbie A. Curtis Dolloff, the wife of Oscar Fitzland Dolloff."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… he married Ellen Maria Marston, daughter of the sea captain Levi Marston. The couple lived in Massachusetts for a time, but James's ill…"