Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Kids at the quarry

"… quarry Swan's Island 3-5 grade class on an old quarry boilerSwan's Island Historical Society Kim Colbeth's 3-5 grade class visited Baird's…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's plow, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… John Martin (1823-1904) was about 10 years old when he built his own plow and had his own garden on the land his family rented in Hampden."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Clara Cary, Rinaldo Wiggin, John Martin, Bangor, 1844

"… height but from this time untill she was 19 years old she grew slim and a little taller. her dress was a blue & red spotted Delane with a small…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Brewer, ca. 1838

"… style of cap was in fashion when I was 4 years old they had no visor and were wadded with cotton batting and sometimes trimed with fur."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… could read a word as early as from 3 to 4 years old she made books her friend & has never yet departed from them.' In the center, she is shown as…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince's factory and store, Bangor, 1864

"… shows the wooden store as it was in 1850 and the old factory before it was rebuilt and the brick store as it was rebuilt and as it appeared in 1864."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Sr. home, Ellsworth, 1823

"… in February 1824 when his only son was 11 months old. The younger John Martin visited Ellsworth as an adult, with his mother, and re-created the…"

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

"… one on someone's pasture, he had the 15-year-old, 12-foot-tall tree dug up and planted it in his yard."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… began to sail off bearing easterly." His 6-year-old daughter, Ada, commented, while the balloon was at its highest point about "poor man one mile…"

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

"One such celebration was Memorial Day. Old and young would gather near the Veterans Memorial. There would be a parade, speeches and music."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He used the house as a boarding house for men working at the sawmill and working in lumbering. This house became known as the Springer House."

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

"Albert was old enough to help his father do the inspections once a month. While his father went to one farm, he and his brothers Dale, Keith, and…"

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

"… The first floor of the building contains an old ticket booth, a kitchen, and ample space for tables."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Telephone communication

"… about the island telephone system took place in the 1960s. As you will hear in the audio, the phone system was old fashioned even for the '60s."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"1920Swan's Island Historical Society Young and old loved to spend time at the beach. There would be dips in the very cold water, but much of the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery

"Where are all the other headstones of everyone who died before 1800? So far no one has been able to locate this old, old cemetery."

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

"… by Harold Burnham.(2) Burnham had bought the old Leavitt Brothers Clam Plant, and he and family members occupied the front part that had been a…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… but they remained as essentially separate entities. An old record book of Scarborough has no entry until 1669, eleven years after incorporation."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"… passed away in 1922, when Andrew was 65 years old. A year later he married Cora E. Staples (1858-1942), widow of Frederick Stockbridge."

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"Print. The Old Town Enterprise. "Solomon-Grindell Clothing Company Inc. Lincoln, Maine." Print. Murphy, Marilyn."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"Portland, ME: Katahdin Publishing Co., 1925. Moulton, Augustus. Old Prouts Neck. Portland, ME: Marks Printing House, 1924."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"(Surry tax records, 1878). In the old barn there were nameplates marking the inhabitants of the old stalls: Bessy, MaryAnne, Bossy."

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

"Hundreds of local school children, collectors, and other interested people visited the farm and its well-known carriage collection to hear Ken…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"… one of Presque Isle’s favorite entertainments for old and young people. Northern Maine FairPresque Isle Historical Society Dorothy, some…"