Maine Memory Network

Colby College Special Collections

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library

"Meanwhile a library committee was established and they contacted several libraries in the area and the Maine State Library for advice about the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"As the grasses decay, the rotted material forms a nutrient-rich “soup” that feeds the plankton, clams, mussels, worms and some fish."

Northeast Historic Film

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… would be using completely updated with the best materials since it would need to be rugged enough to haul away all the dirt from the excavation and…"

Skowhegan History House

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Rumford Area Historical Society

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Westport Island History Committee

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

"… from Wellesley, Mass bought the necessary material to build a piping system from Bennett Pond in Parkman to Guilford."

Acadian Archives

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Prince Memorial Library

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… eventually did agree to allow funds and materials to restore the building. But the school’s last commencement was in 1918."

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

"… supplying a way for the much needed construction materials and manufacturing equipment and, in time, the means of getting the finished paper to…"

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

"… was very busy with vessels carrying construction materials arriving daily. As a result of the expansion a telephone line, bridge over the canal and…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… carpenters, ship-chandlers and other suppliers of materials needed to construct the yards and vessels."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… to competition, what were seen as high costs of materials and labor, and low profits. Gilman gives the torturous details of the efforts to…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… special dispensation from the Government for the materials to build this building. With steel in short supply, none was used in the construction…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… of slate, quartzite, limestone and greenstone – materials that at a later date provided income for those who came to settle on the island."