Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"… to be the best that a 7th grader is capable of producing. At the beginning of May, students started building their exhibits."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"Their partnership with Francis Fassett produced much of downtown Bath. Francis Fassett, a Bath native born in 1823, died in Portland in 1908."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… hired to cut clams and paid by the gallon of meat produced. Clams were delivered in the morning to local homes, and at the end of the day the meat…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… used to build ships in Yarmouth’s harbor; farms produced crops that were sold in the village and village merchants sold goods to the rural farmers."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Maine did not have the coal and iron needed to produce the steel for the ships and engines, and Bath emerged as the only Maine shipbuilding center to…"

Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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

"Today, GWF produces premium grade hardwood pellet fuel. They employ 15 people in raw material receiving and processing, pellet production, packaging…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… booklets, but not enough to pay their expenses or produce much of a profit. According to Mr. Newell's short biography of Mr."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"The geographic range of maps produced in this period, to the east in 1817 and to the west in 1820 arose from the opaque issues at stake as well as…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… section of this website.”) “The Maine Experience, Episode 103” a Maine Public Television program produced a 10-minute feature on Malaga in 2010."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… ago, erosion by rivers and continental ice sheets produced topography of ridges underlain by resistant bedrock such as granite, and valleys where…"

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

"… time, the land was more mature and yielded better produce. New Portland was continuing to develop and more people came to the area."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The homestead offered its guests fresh produce and dairy products from local farms. The Homestead offered activities, like sailing expeditions…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… of the best equipped mills in all of New England, producing cashmere and dress goods. This plant was enlarged and a floor added in 1907."

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

"In the 1870s, mass-produced paper was inexpensive enough to use in the everyday classroom which allowed students to write and keep longer pieces of…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Economy By 1870, Surry was producing goods for the clothing, building, and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1821 • Twenty smokehouses operating in Lubec – produced 50 to 60 thousand boxes of fish annually."

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

"… up of a prosperous city around the fabled gold producing plant, dashed.” Even though many investors, very few from the Lubec area, lost everything…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"They produced ash tool handles, canoes and paddles, and the ash baskets for the potato industry. With mechanization of logging and potato farming…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… land had been transformed into a working farm producing small grain crops which helped support Thomas, his wife Phoebe, and their eleven children."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… At this time there were 20 smokehouses in Lubec producing 50 to 60 thousand boxes of fish annually, bringing employment and prosperity to the town."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"At Hallowell, ships were loaded with goods and produce and sailed on the tide down the Kennebec River to the sea."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Penmanship Practice produced in BrunswickFarmington Historical Society Stephen Titcomb, reputed to be the first settler, came to Farmington before…"