Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Welcome

"Welcome Bangor from the east bank of the Penobscot River, ca. 1905Bangor Public Library Welcome! to the Bangor Community Heritage Project."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… with ways to revitalize its city core along the banks of the Kenduskeag and Penobscot Rivers and settled on an ambitious but bittersweet urban…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"All the businesses that had basements near the river were damaged. On top of the flood waters, some fires also broke out."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… occupied the upper floors of the Bangor Savings Bank building on lower State Street near the foot of State Street Hill."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… Bank Script, Bangor, 1862 Script from individual banks, like the Veazie bank, was used until currency was standardized by the U.S."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"The banks of the Pond are almost covered with Roses- White and Red while the margin of the Pond for 6 or 8 Rods is white with Pond-Lillies."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… crossing the river they followed the northern bank to what we now call Farmington Falls. Measuring Rock Located on Rt."

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"… logs were a boom to dwellers along the river banks, who got a fixed price from the owners according to the distance below Hallowell at which they…"

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"… sculpted by her artisans, but why stone from the banks of the Kennebec and who were the movers, shakers, and hard rock breakers? Communities grow…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"The two excessive amounts of water flow caused the Kennebec River to flood its banks. The flood hit the community on the night of March 13, 1936."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"A walk along the stream bank reveals pieces of chalk and flint to this day imported from Dover, England to try to make a go of the sandpaper business."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north. These houses were often located under evergreen trees…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north. These houses were often located under evergreen trees…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"1876 Maine Maritime Museum Before the Lincoln Bank was built in 1878, the Bath Bank building occupied the site at the southwestern corner of Centre…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"… has produced real originals, individuals whose impact has reached far beyond the banks of the Saco River. Click on a name at right to read more!"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… gentlemen, including a tract along the western banks of the "Swanckadocke" River to Richard Vines and John Oldham, "containing in breadth by the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"Men and women built small farms along the fertile banks of the river, grew crops and raised livestock for themselves and to trade."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… to Boston!), the first "block" built, the first bank, the first fire company, first fraternal lodge, first high school, first newspaper, first city…"

Historic Hallowell - Wire, Ice, and Iron Industries

"… Hallowell settled along the Bombahook, the banks of Vaughan Stream. Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - The City of Hallowell

"… with Central Maine Power and the food bank to get power to the area and get food to the elderly and needy."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men

"… on the Kennebec was a stand of timber, a sloping bank and a little good water. Hallowell-built "Topaz," 1828Hubbard Free Library In 1799…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"The bank has been around for more than 150 years. It has never been successfully robbed. That is one of the reasons why people go there. David C."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners, aquaducts etc., etc., etc."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… stretch of the Kennebec River and the system of river-parallel ridges on which the city is situated include crustal plate movements, river erosion…"