Maine Memory Network

Acadia National Park

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Maine Conservation Corps

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Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"… Falmouth Gazette—the District of Maine's first newspaper—was founded by fervent separationists and became instrumental in the early push for an…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"Within only a few years, Hugh and his brother, the “Chisholm Brothers”, had contracts to provide exclusive distribution rights of newspapers, tourist…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Working for newspapers like this helped Mary’s writing reach a broader audience. Mary Alden Hopkins wrote about her experience as a suffragette and…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"According to a contemporary newspaper, the fire was plainly visible at Bar Harbor almost 50 miles away."

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

"In a newspaper account of his 80th birthday, Scarborough resident Aaron A. Merrill, a Civil War veteran, recalled the days when Scarborough was a…"

Skowhegan History House

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"In the Times newspaper commemorative interview on July 20, 1988, with Elmire Kimball, a 5-year-old child at the time of the fire, the scene was…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"… Guilford had the railroad, woolen mills, a newspaper, and even a cinema. What the town needed was a library."

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

"Newspapers throughout New England had a field day exposing the fraud. The August 1, 1898 edition of The Boston Herald reported, “Never did a…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… 1 dentist, 1 lawyer, 2 undertakers, and 1 newspaper; the Guilford Citizen. In 1903 the United States Post Office was located in the Braeburn…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… in years as early as 1853 (Franklin Journal Newspaper) The Willows The Willows Hotel, Farmington, ca."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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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.

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… grew large enough to support a hotel, a school, newspapers, churches, and various stores; moreover the extension of the military road to Presque…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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