Maine Memory Network

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - About Us

"About Us The New Portland MCHP group consisted of partners from MSAD #74, the New Portland Community Library, and the New Portland Historical…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"The Training School Mallett Training School This school will be replaced within the next year or two Farmington Historical Society As the…"

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

"Occasionally the two groups traded goods since the availability of products was scarce at this early time of the town."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library

"… New Portland Community Library Website! In 1988 a group of New Portland citizens met to discuss the establishment of a new entity for the…"

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

"Central School always had a food booth. In later years, junk auctions became popular. These were when people would sell junk that they didn't need…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"In 1923, the school finally received a cement foundation and, six years later, to end a decade which had seen some major improvements made to the…"

Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 2 of 2

"… Secretary/Treasurer Piscataquis Community Middle School – The six-town school district “supplied” seventh and eighth grade social studies teacher…"

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 2 of 2

"… of Mercy in 1955, later training at Connecticut School of Pharmacy as a registered hospital pharmacist. She served at Mercy Hospital until 1964."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"In 1948, a new School of X-Ray Technology accepted its first students, with Patricia Kane as the first graduate."

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"A graduate of the School of Nursing in Lewiston in 1918, she took vows as a Sister of Mercy in 1922, and in 1926 was appointed superintendent of the…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… in Houlton, and more openings of parochial schools. One of the stated core values of the Sisters of Mercy as set forth by Mother McAuley, is…"

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"… for the 140 students then enrolled in the School of Nursing. The new expansion was formally dedicated on March 18 and 19, 1943 by Bishop McCarthy…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… arrived in Bangor, Maine where they opened a school that later became Saint John School. In 1873, Bishop David Bacon invited them to Portland to…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Schools and public places closed as well. In neighboring towns like Bath, people tagged their houses with white cards or red letters warning people…"

Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"… trained nurses led to the opening of the Training School for Nurses of the Queen’s Hospital in 1920."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"Sports High School Sports View a High School Sports Slideshow Sports, as in newspapers around the globe, occupied a prominent role in the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 2 of 3

"… wood products industry, history of town schools, groups and organizations, and the story of the bridge."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"His group went to a luncheon and conferences at the House Restaurant, visited the White House, and met with members of the Maine Congressional…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… cut off from the colony of New Sweden causing a group of newspapermen to publicize the poverty and dire straits of the Swedes."

Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 1 of 2

"… X Excited about their good fortune, the group began to meet to discuss the overall project, review the materials received from MHS, register…"

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

"When W.W. Thomas and the first group of Swedes arrived on July 23, 1870, however, Burleigh's work was not yet finished - only six of the 25 log…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"It had a shop in the bottom floor. Groups and organizations met at the Odd Fellows Hall. Some of the groups were Masons, Rainbow Girls, N.E.O.P, the…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… fifteen of the enemy and annihilated the entire group. Later he forced his way into another cave where he destroyed five enemy soldiers."

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

"The group returned to their homes in Topsham to get supplies, axes, saws and other tools to begin the hard job of clearing the land."