Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… we have ambulances that have certain rights on roads that allow them to get to patients quicker. These are some ways early hospitals and modern…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… carriages on rough, bumpy, steep buckboard roads. Village life centered around Somesville and Southwest Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… work on building the islands network of carriage roads. He saw in JDR, Jr., a kindred spirit who not only loved the natural, wild parts of the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"And two years after that the island's first road stretched from Somesville to Southwest Harbor, by way of Beech Hill."

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… of fallen trees in the woods and branches on the road. When I got to work everyone was scrambling to get where they needed to go."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… shore, the Hewes Point landing was near the Main Road and the former community of Guinea. Hewes Point residents, summer and year-round, had easy…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"George road then and was went to school it’s no longer there used to be on school street. Kristen Sawyer: In Thomaston? What town did you live in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… Music Lending Library: It started in 1983 as a road trip between friends in a borrowed RV. Mary Cheney Gould (founder of the Bagaduce Chorale), and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… on the corner of Main Street and Parker Point Road that opened its doors in 1939. It is now widely recognized as among the busiest small-town…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"They would have better roads, better government, and better businesses for the town to earn money. Another feeling was pride because not many small…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"… river from Lincoln to Chester (like the Access Road bridge) is much larger and holds much more weight, such as big trucks and car carriers, woods…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"He bought two lots on the present-day Military Road. In the winters of 1824-1826, Jeremy taught the first school in the area."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Libby’s house on Transalpine Road. The house was built in 1840 by Chandler Bruce. Thomas had a house that had enough room to have two families in it…"

Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church

"It is located at the intersection of Lee Road and Main Street. A major event about this church was that Isaac Burton donated a clock for the front of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"The Military Road through Lincoln was the main avenue of transportation for most of the troops, so it must have excited lots of the townspeople."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… in North Yarmouth, located at 598 Walnut Hill Road, was established in 1894 as the town's first community library. Lura A."

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

"… localized to the church at the Route 9/Blanchard Road intersection. Cumberland Map X Cumberland’s Secession: 1821 This church split…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… or at intersections of travel lanes, where inland roads met stagecoach routes. When railroad lines were established, in later years, villages grew…"

Seashore Trolley Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… a bridge because if he had been walking on the road, he would be asked why he was traveling on the Sabbath."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… a deep well pumping station on the South Strong Road. The town added a 500,000-gallon enclosed concrete reservoir at the north end of town, with a…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… growth of the settlement to a village and a town; roads and houses on the hillsides in place of the retreating forest."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"Those who lived in the Swain Road and Eaton Hill section of Woodrowville had their own local facility."