Maine Memory Network

Penobscot Marine Museum

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Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… route and paid the mail carrier In 1894 this old mail route was discontinued and a steamboat company contracted to bring the mail daily from…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… build new rather than try to save or re-use the old because it is faster to do so. Will modern standardized building practices cause our…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"… also borrowed from the Masonic Order and the old English estate system. The first four degrees are based on the four seasons of the year."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… building new residences and adding on to the old ones. As you study the various architectural styles chosen by Summer Street residents, you will…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… described as “perhaps, the most famous of the old towns of the county—famous by reason of its antiquity, its favorable situation upon the…"

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Freeport Historical Society

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Westbrook Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… his property until he was past eighty years old. Josiah was also involved in shipping in Newburyport with his cousin Jacob Little."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"Hugh J. Chisholm II was now seventy years old and had served as President of the Oxford Paper for 44 years."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 1 of 2

"… has remained the same is the goal, to preserve old artifacts and documents and to investigate the history of the town."

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"… a drummer boy in the army at the age of 12 years old in the War of 1812. The drum was in the family until it was stolen."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… 1892 to 1923, Waldo Street had become a secondary business district to the Congress Street business area and had spurred the growth of a collection…"

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

"… that were in the North Village in 1860: From an Old North New Portland Directory Business Card Dated 1860 Abijah Coleman Postmaster W.H."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… played one of his violins, made from parts of an old schoolhouse that had been on Ross Road, at the high school graduation in the Town Hall."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"There at Longwoods Road stood a depot from where businesses and farmers sent their products to markets beyond Cumberland."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"Here, the records of island history are fully cataloged, protected from fire and climate, and accessible during regular business hours throughout the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"… that he wished he could be home to vote for “Old Abe” and later, that he had read Abraham Lincoln had won the election for president."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Cumberland, Maine: Floyd Norton, n.d. Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine. A facsimile of the thirty-two quarterly magazines edited and published by…"

United Society of Shakers

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Luther Finch, Jr. The Fox family replaced their old building in 1852-53 with a four story brick commercial block that burned in the Great Fire of…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"A lobster canning factory was built in Old Harbor, although demand fluctuated. By 1890 prices grew higher and boats grew larger as the easy to reach…"