Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"… in the 20th century with varying degrees of prominence. About 40 years ago, Robert P. Applebee, a retired U.S."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"The Andrews family were the most prominent of the local granite pioneers, with the largest quarries in Biddeford, located out along the Pool Road."

Maine Maritime Museum

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Porter Memorial Library

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Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Walker Memorial Library

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Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"Almost every prominent veteran was enrolled, including Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, and McKinley."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Prominent in this ambrotype are the one story shop shared by harness and saddle maker J. B. Tuttle and boot and show maker G."

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"… Richards, members of two of Gardiner’s most prominent families. Tragedy struck these families on September 4, 1855, when fifteen year old Sarah…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"To paraphrase prominent dress historian Anne M. Buck, when surviving specimens of dress are studied in the same way as other material evidence of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"All three became prominent in politics at the state and national level. Then we had Lewis Litchfield, station agent in Scarborough for the Boston &…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… (2007-????) Four of these businesses and their prominent owners deserve special mention. For example, in the early 1850s, according to the 1858…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"Captain Morris, General Blake, and prominent Hampden citizens held a heated and confused meeting at the Hampden Academy building."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"Mr. Robinson and Mr. Reed were prominent Bath businessmen. The steps of the Customs House were often the site of city, state, or federal government…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… wealthy businessman William Duer, and later the prominent Philadelphian William Bingham, purchased vast tracts of land in the Maine wilderness and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"… illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880. Condon, Richard H."

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"The Porter family has a prominent place in Strong’s history and played a central role in the town’s early development."

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

"1806 William King became a prominent figure in 19th century Maine separation politics and would continue to play a major role in early statehood as…"

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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He was a prominent Boston physician who eventually exponentially increased his net worth by engaging in the importing of medical supplies."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"That field, a prominent part of Farmington, became the Hippach Memorial Field in 1916. Howard Hippach, an exceptional athlete, was killed in an auto…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… on High Street, this building has been a rather prominent structure in town. Built in 1859-60 for the new owners, Timothy Belcher and new wife…"