Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The company went out of business in 1854 after the second fire in fourteen years. Seventy-one years passed before Hampden’s first fire department…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… that is foundational to the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, six Wabanaki leaders, including Darumkin and Warumbo, allowed Richard Wharton to purchase…"

Lewiston Public Library

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… Historical Society At first glance, the papers of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors position men as the primary economic actors in White New…"

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

"… conflicts sown by vague boundaries drawn on paper in faraway rooms. Such conflicts form a key context for the documents that visitors and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The company went out of business in 1854 after the second fire in fourteen years. Seventy-one years passed before Hampden’s first fire department…"

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

"… Dyking Company.” Chapter 223, 1876 Boothby Papers. A collection of diking corporation meeting minutes and notes recorded by George Boothby."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"Other key figures with prominent surviving papers in the collection include British commissioner John Ogilvy (1769-1819) of Scotland and Upper…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"The remaining papers were The Portland Daily Press, a paper owned by Senator Frederick Hale, and the Portland Evening Express, owned by Colonel Fred…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"The Steam and Boom Company collected all the logs and put them through a saw mill. The saw mill would make the logs in different shapes and sizes, so…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

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

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 3 of 4

"… is comprised of a gored, very flared stiff paper nylon skirt of black and white checks, overprinted with a black flock floral design."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"… water cups out of half sheets of arithmetic paper. In 1931, the school got electricity and stove jackets were placed in each room, and in 1940…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… often spent time simply reading through the paper for a given year or years to get a "feel" for the time--specifically before and during the Civil…"

Bridgton Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"In her paper, Hepler also mentions that the Soldiers' Monument was built on an empty lot at the intersection of High and Centre Streets, in 1867, and…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"The Walter Blake Insurance Company building was changed to Cornier’s Market, then Worthen’s Market, and is currently Rite Aid."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… partner Clearwater placed advertisements in papers like the New York Times and Chicago Tribune soon created a patent medicine mail-order business…"

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

"Constitution, local papers dedicated its commentary to national matters and suspended talk of Maine separation.[9] Despite all of this, the movement…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… have the pleasure before long of listening to a paper on this subject by one of its earnest advocates, ‘Captain’ Charles Eliot.” -- W.H."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"John IV and others bought out the company in 1928 and organized General Mills, Inc. The contributions that John Crosby and his descendants made to…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"By 1875 the consolidated company was in default. The two railroads separated and each reorganized. The E & NA was formally reorganized in October of…"

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… to handle and have been wholly replaced by the paper sacks which hold five, 10 or 25 pounds.” Croswell Fancy Patent Stencil The Croswell…"