Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"One is in Massachusetts and one is in Penobscot Bay. He designed the one in Penobscot and it was very popular around here. He was quite a character."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… and personality, Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, Penobscot, (1827-1906) was a leader among Wabanakis who commercialized their public identities to make…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast: Blue Hill and Penobscot Bays, 1982. —(LI) O’Leary, W.M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry…"

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

"… of the same territory from the Piscataqua to the Penobscot. After reviewing its charter, Massachusetts appealed to the English Chancery Court…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… with the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Mi’kmaq and Penobscot Indians, were members of the old Wabanaki Confederacy, the traditional adversaries of the…"

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"Other stories claim he was from the Penobscot or Androscoggin tribes. In 1793, he was one of several Indians asked to determine the boundaries of…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… conditions, they could take the ferry across the Penobscot River from Prospect to Buckport, just upriver of Fort Knox."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… and Irish folks in the Spruce Street/Knox Street Penobscot Street areas had the Pettengill School. The Strathglass residence children attended…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… the mouth of the Souadabscook Stream toward the Penobscot River. He was an early trader with the West Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses…"

Caribou Public Library

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

"… Guilford was located in the counties of Somerset, Penobscot, and finally Piscataquis. Pond Block, Guilford, ca."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The failure of the American expedition to the Penobscot in 1779 was a costly one. The lumber trade, which had been the prinicipal means for…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… with having secured the neutrality of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians despite British efforts to enlist their support against the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"During the 40s and 50s Sedgwick, Penobscot, Brooksville, and other towns around Blue Hill began to close their own high schools and transport their…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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