Maine Memory Network

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

"When he was in seventh grade, Albert had a paper route delivering the Bangor Daily News. He had fifty customers, and woke up at 5:00 AM and delivered…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper on a continuous roll. The company went out of business in 1854 after the second fire in…"

Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Historic Hallowell - Logging

"… logging industry because they used trees to make paper. Nowadays, logs aren’t shipped down the Kennebec River anymore, for trucks are used instead…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"The cloth was used to make the paper at the mill, and a portion of the paper was sent back to Boston to a newspaper company."

Brick Store Museum

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper on a continuous roll. The company went out of business in 1854 after the second fire in…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… and from the land, and some of them worked at the paper mill in Bucksport. “Summer people” in Surry and in Blue Hill provided seasonal employment…"

Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"Robert Low Jr. sent a paper to the government to see if they could get a warrant to have Guilford be on a map and have it be a legal town."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… Company Records, the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, and the Thomas Barclay Collection (also known as the Northeast Boundary Collection)."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"… were discarded and manufactured pencils and paper were used. These had many benefits that the slates did not have."

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"Unlike with traditional paper-based materials, many 19th and early 20th century repositories often overlooked the research value of photographs, and…"

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

"John Edward Horton's Military Discharge Papers X John Horton was a soldier in the Civil War and became a corporal on July 1, 1864."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… that has been done on his personal and business papers has focused on his national career: His years as chief of artillery during the Revolution…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"Benjamin started the first paper mill on the Souadabscook Stream. John Jr. married the daughter of Simeon Stetson, who represented Hampden on the…"

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"After he arrived in East Thomaston, Sagurs filed papers at the law office for the arrest of Atticus as a runaway slave and had D.N. Piper search Mr."

Sanford-Springvale Historical Society

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Maine Historical Society

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Bridgton Historical Society

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Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"… if it remained a district of Massachusetts. The paper emphasized that “if any other attentions are required from Congress…they are more likely to…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… we had to be very careful with what we used and paper good and food and so forth and had to make everything we bought had to be something that was…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"I have not got the Papers that you spoke of yet but shall expect them tonight. . . . Give my love to the children and Grandfather and Grandmother."