Maine Memory Network

Westbrook Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"The Goodwin Houses, Ridlonville, ca. 1900Mexico Historical Society The Central School, built in 1894, was burned Christmas eve of 1906 and was…"

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… today’s Scarborough Historical Society and Museum building.(4) Turnouts, where trolleys could stop and pick up or discharge passengers, were…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… low-lying, protected tidal estuaries and began to build up. Various organisms, plant life and marine animals were attracted to the resulting…"

Berwick Historical Society

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Town of Cumberland

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Peru Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Space for fish stages and wood to build them were needed and were plentiful along the Maine coast. Territory for fish stages was allotted on a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5

"100 building. Our schools are thriving and have proven to be among the best in the state. Although our farms have declined, the Board of Selectmen…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot

"… about the fire which consumed Biddeford's City Building on December 31, 1894. From the Biddeford Weekly Standard, January 4, 1895."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… the Maine Turnpike Authority, for the purpose of building a super highway.(8) The first section of highway opened in 1947 between Kittery and…"

New Sweden Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Cummings graduated from the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1823 and practiced medicine in Portland with his father Stephen Cummings."

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… took him to Bangor, where he preached and taught school from 1812 to 1818. That year he settled in Garland, where he devoted most of the balance of…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… them together in a photographer’s studio – school, friendship, or family? Other group daguerreotypes in the Society’s collection are more clearly…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"The use of concrete and steel in constructing buildings and bridges diminished the importance of granite, affecting employment in the state's granite…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"Guests who wanted to build summer cottages of their own began buying plots of land from Sweet. In 1908, the homestead was torn down."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… in 1768, William King received only a grammar school education. Starting work in a Topsham sawmill, he rose to become the largest ship owner in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… Pownall and he encouraged the General Court to build a fortification at the mouth of the Penobscot."

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

"… for lumber near Walnut Hill village were used to build ships in Yarmouth’s harbor; farms produced crops that were sold in the village and village…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 4 of 17

"… part of their economy and even helped support the build of the Western Railroad in 1872. Andrews Quarry saw great success in 1886 when James…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"The last school closed in the 1940s, but the building still remains and is used to hold town meetings and the Byron Historical Society."

Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society

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