Maine Memory Network

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

"… de Champlain wrote in his journal on September 5, “The same day we passed also near to an island about four or five leagues long, in the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War Resources

"Civilwar.org, n.d. Web. 5/23/2012. Francis Ireland letters 1862-1863, MS 261, Special Collections, Raymond H."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Jesup Memorial Library

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"… Cambridge, Massachusetts’s at 1919, at the age of 5 I was sent to live with my grandparents on a farm in Holliston, Massachusetts, I lived there…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"“A Brief Scarborough Nature Center History.” Audubon Nature Center Collection, 5 May 1983. Wilson, Emily. “Marsh People.” Salt Magazine, No. 45"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin cone cedar tree, Bangor, 1866

"The illustration is on page 5 of Martin's "Scrap Book No. 3," one of five volumes he wrote and illustrated reflecting on his life and experiences and…"

Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"He had fifty customers, and woke up at 5:00 AM and delivered the paper every day for six years until he graduated from high school."

Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery

"March 5, 1770 VOTED to work on the Burying Yard the 25th of April. There is a Jonah Dodge mentioned in the same early records who was buried "near…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"1, p. 81-83, Maine Historical Society. 5. Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"… called Bucktown Plantation or Plantation No. 5. In 1793 the Massachusetts General Court chose to incorporate the town as Buckfield."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… and shops to a densely forested coastline with no roads and no people was perhaps the same spirit that infused the passengers on the first ships…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"… the nationals.” It was 2% for the nationals, 2.5% for the trust company. He says, “I’m not gunna tell you why but get your money out."

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

"That winter, the men cut 5,000,000 board feet of lumber from the land where Mattanawcook Lake would eventually be, enough to run the three saws in…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"There were no casualties or serious injuries caused by the Flood of 1987, but people will still never forget this disaster. Written by Ayden Young"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"… and Morrill who owned corn canneries, offered 5 cents per pound, a bonus of 1 cent per pound to stimulate local corn production."

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

"Grade 4 had seven students. Grade 5 had nine students. Grade 6 had nine students. Their teacher was Rudolph M."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… the opening of the steam railroad (only 5 hours to Boston!), the first "block" built, the first bank, the first fire company, first fraternal…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… Pierre Painchaud, who immigrated in 1857 at age 5. At age 18 he founded La Fanfare Painchaud (Painchaud's Band), which would become one of the most…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"Vines took possession of the tract June 5, 1630 in a ceremony witnessed by six fellow travelers and explorers."

Maine Maritime Museum

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"[5] Falmouth Gazette, 4/30/1785. For more on the different Gazette contributors and their pseudonyms see Hatch, Maine: A History, 181."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… above, but the freight amounts ranged from $5.50 to $1.50. This is important to Lincoln’s history because steamboats were used for postal services…"