Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"1855Dixfield Historical Society This early building had separate entrances for the men and women and a balcony in the back which opened into the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"A school building was erected on Roxbury Road and one near Highland Terrace before 1850. The next to come was the Walton School, then the Kingdom…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… to expand landscape design holdings and build a network of partners to support converting the database to a Maine Memory Network online portal. In…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"He returned to Hartford to build a stone wall 100 rods long in eight weeks for $100. With his earnings he bought a pair of oxen for $50 and sold them…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills. At the same time, many East Surry men, along with…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"Drew's Mill, Biddeford, 1909McArthur Public Library Lumber and other goods from the interior came down the river where they were readied for sale…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"… Francis Spencer, and a very small portion of the mills continued operation making a variety of blankets."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… elected positions of the town and to discuss the building of roads. Selectmen, Town Clerk, and Tax Collector, Bondsmen, Road Surveyors, Hog Reaves…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… of their list was to see if it was possible to build a road from the headwaters of the Connecticut River to the Kennebec."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"Hardware stores were being built to supply the building boom due to the construction of the Oxford Paper Company across the Androscoggin River in…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… favored the Georgian Revival style for commercial buildings such as the United States Trust Company Bank in Fryeburg (1922), the Fidelity Trust…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… project refurbished the Science Hill Cemetery by building new steps, removing brush, and uprighting and cleaning old stones."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"All of this had a hand in the early days of building what would become a Maine High School basketball dynasty."

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… the land, and some of them worked at the paper mill in Bucksport. “Summer people” in Surry and in Blue Hill provided seasonal employment to a…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"… commercial buildings: the Webber and Porter Building on Main Street in Searsport, the Connor and Hathorn Building on Main Street in Pittsfield, the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"Mills built along the railroad made Strong the logging community it is today. Sometimes the trains used two engines to haul a big load of wood."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"In the late 1940's, the building was already in disrepair with a caving floor. There were still costumes in the back room."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fiske Block, Broad Street, Bangor, 1864

"… in and floors fell in enbracing the engine planing mills &c ." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"Thomas Hunter built a wood mill in 1813 and a gristmill soon after. William Pottle built the first tannery."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Places

"Though some of the buildings are gone, there are many rich stories to be told, a few of them include: Brick Inn Farmington's First Grist Mill…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… smaller water sources provided sites for future mills. The Penobscot River itself provided a smooth and reliable source of transportation to the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"In 2007, the hall was cleared out and in May of 2009 the entire building was moved to its current location at 65 Atlantic Loop Rd."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - History Detectives

"Check out the exhibits below to see ways the students got involved: Old Buildings Exhibit Baird's Quarry Exhibit"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"This was a good dam, lumber mill, grist mill, clover and starch factory. Later a school house was built."