Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Wrappers, Teagowns & At Home Dresses

"Recent scholarship points to the possibility that the most sophisticated versions such as the first three listed in this slide show, were perhaps…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… by the Stamp Act unrest, and only then as a pointed rebuke to Massachusetts’ increasingly unruly politicians."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Hewes Point developed into Islesboro's second summer resort area in the 1880s, but was a year 'round community as well."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… Society and Charlene Fenlason Pine Point Road, Scarborough, ca. 1907Scarborough Historical Society & Museum The first “roads” were not really…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"Northeast Harbor, then called Sand Point, was an example of one of these towns. This exhibit looks at the changes made to this village between the…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"At one point, 306,000 people (which was about 40 percent of the working population at the time) worked in the factories."

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"Events in her history point up the fact that Hallowell contributed to the economic, social and political history of the state and nation in areas…"

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

"… extensive beaches: Higgins, Scarborough and Pine Point. There are ledges, however, around Prouts Neck, Bluff and Stratton Islands (now part of…"

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

"… of Cockell: An Illustrated History of Pine Point, Maine. Wilmington, MA: Hampshire Press, 1988. Fogg, John D."

Maine Aviation Historical Society & Maine Air Museum

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Blue Hill Public Library

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St. Croix Historical Society

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Museum at Portland Head

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Swan's Island Historical Society

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Stockholm Historical Society

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Maine State Archives

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Oakfield Historical Society

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Maine Granite Industry Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - Weathervane Dispute

"Bonsey wrote a pointed response to Mr. Carter accusing him of lacking the intelligence to comprehend the facts (through no fault of his own), and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"Even Irish Point, one of the earliest areas of settlement, had a store. Travel around the island was by foot, carriage, or animal so it was…"

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

"At that point in Swan's Island history, people rarely traveled outside of their own communities. A resident of Atlantic would rely on Atlantic…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… Cape Jellerson, saving a man at the eddy at Carls Point, a failed romance, operating a butchering cart with his father, working at Eastes and…"

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

"… commented, while the balloon was at its highest point about "poor man one mile high in the air all alone sustained by a cloth bag filled with gas."…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 3 of 3

"… chemise with a hemline of velveteen handkerchief points. Lengthening skirts of the later 1920s are illustrated by a a red and gold metallic lace…"