Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"… Building of Arts By: Josh Howie Green Mountain Railway By: Spenser Simis The Bryants and the Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families By: Eliza…"

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… engineer for the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway. He was in charge of the task of building a rail line from Duluth, Minnesota to Sault Ste."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… either by choice or eminent domain, the proposed railway running through the General Knox Estate. Although many residents tried to save Montpelier…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… (1886), the horse-drawn and then electric street railway (1888, 1892). Additionally there was a huge and thriving arts scene in the area, in no…"

Brick Store Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"… Dancing, family history, Hampden, first street railway   Part 3, pages 72-120 Annie Martin Snow death, dance school, Katahdin Charcoal Iron…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Railway Company also leased ten acres of land in Hampden and operated Riverside Park, a rustic amusement park built on the banks high above the…"

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Bridgton Historical Society

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… was later owned and operated by the Bangor Railway and Electric Company. The Bangor, Hampden & Winterport Electric Company trolley, Hampden…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… to connect with both the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad. On June 20, 1910, the Certificate of Safety was issued for…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Electric RailSeashore Trolley Museum Electric Rail In 1894 the Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway, along what is currently Route 88 in…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Sylvia got into a railway crash in 1933, causing her to go blind until her her death in 1938. Sylvia lived to 102, eight days before her 103rd…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"At the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railway depot on Commercial Street, there was a “dense mass of human beings, so much so that it was next to…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… Railroad and the Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railway. They hauled pulp and paper, petroleum, mill products, and chemicals."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"Scarborough Railway Stations Train at Scarborugh Beach Station, ca. 1900Scarborough Historical Society & Museum The Boston and Maine had…"

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

"… Legislature granted a charter to the Old Town Railway Company owned by Edward and Samule Smith and Rufus Dwinel in 1832."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… influenced the development of an efficient railway system in the area throughout the later 1800s."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"In 1881, the New Brunswick Railway System (later known as the Canadian Pacific Railroad) steamed into town allowing for starch to be shipped south…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… transport freight and goods, the Aroostook Valley Railway boasted a small passenger service. The passenger station was located on the corner of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… system and 13 years later, the Bangor Street Railway began to lay track to provide transportation service to a city that had spread out."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… time for the middle and upper classes, improved railway and steamship lines made Maine more accessible, and many families sought to escape the…"