Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… the past and in the present" My uncle worked as a road constructor and he worked there for a while and then bought his own property, named his own…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… born November 17, 1841 and grew up on Morgan Bay Road in Surry, Maine. She was the only daughter of Benjamin and Jemima Lord and the youngest of…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"… Farming in Maine has been a rough and rocky road. Almost four centuries ago, settlers from Europe began coming to the region that is now Maine."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… the Penobscot River and on the west by the Main Road (Rout 1A). Hampden’s development between 1800 and 1920 is dramatically represented by the…"

Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"Tree limbs had knocked onto peoples houses and roads,damaging about everything. Like cars, and homes."

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

"As told in the letter, a corduroy road--a road of parallel logs packed with sand and laid over a swampy area--was being constructed near White Oaks."

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

"This area was bypassed when a new road was built and now the old road is closed to public traffic and the area is privately owned."

Bridgton Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"Ben Tenney, and located above the Wire Mill Road on the Vaughan Stream. Sandpaper Mill, Vaughan Stream, Hallowell, ca 1910Courtesy of Sumner A."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"If you were going down a rough road, you could pull a lever inside the car which raised the whole car body higher off the ground."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"… but what a place once it is done.” Across the road from the Wharff house is the Valley Grange Hall and seen through the back kitchen window, the…"

Maine Granite Industry Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house

"… canned goods there was on the side towards the road you had to ask for everything you wanted. You couldn’t go pick up a loaf of bread or do…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"The home still stands at 290 Atlantic Road, and is currently owned byCharles and Ernestine's daughter, Nancy Davis."

Whitefield Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… of acting upon the question of accepting a road, or roads, laid out to the new depot grounds by the selectmen."

Telephone Museum

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

"Traveling was still very rough in our region throughout the 19th century. The creation and condition of our roads and their constant maintenance was…"

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"When I got to work everyone was scrambling to get where they needed to go. Dear Journal, Day 2 of the ice storm wasn't any better, we had to get…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"Other settlers on the road that would become Main Street were Johannes Anderson, Johan Nilsson Lind, A."

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"If it was deep in the forest, roads were needed to be built. Then a group of year-round loggers arrived and built the camps out of logs (surprise!)."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"They then set to work building roads, clearing lots, and building cabins. The four-lot clusters were cleared such that the five-acre house clearing…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… houses, the Congregational on the Bass Harbor Road in Southwest Harbor, and the Baptist, on Meeting House Hill in The Center, between Somesville…"