Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"Then, as the years fly by, the growth of the settlement to a village and a town; roads and houses on the hillsides in place of the retreating forest."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… dramatic rediscovery of the remains of the French settlement of 1604 on Bone Island (modern-day St. Croix Island) and Robert Pagan deposition."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… primary economic actors in White New Englanders’ settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… to oversee the extension of British trade and settlement into new regions. Land—lots of it—was a means to that end."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the Kennebec Proprietors claimed and sold…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… granted and organized by Royal decree, Dunbar’s settlement efforts threatened most of the land claimed by the new companies."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… Saco and Biddeford, with notices of other early settlements and of the propietary governments, in Maine, including the provinces of New…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… women owned property, many others facilitated the settlement of early Maine. As colonists moved to the region both as squatters and titled…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980; and recent legislative victories during 2021-2022 supporting Passamaquoddy…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"He died in 1717 in Maine. He accomplished the settlement of twenty families on the island. Stephen Minot Stephen Minot started from perhaps the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"As settlement resumed in down-river areas, Arrowsic Island was incorporated as the Town of Georgetown in 1716."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990)…"

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

"Settlements didn't begin to move inland from the rivers and seacoast until after roads were developed in the early 1800s."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Home

"… the story of Thomaston, from our beginnings as a settlement called 'Lincoln' to modern day. Town from River, Thomaston, Maine 2002Thomaston…"

Guilford, Maine - NARRATIVE

"… industrial roots and remain, unlike most early settlements, an old fashioned mill-town. Come back with us and share our history in these three…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3

"In 1768 the island had a sawmill, and settlement began by 1779. Most of the settlement occurred on the lower or southern end."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… seek reimbursementPrince Memorial Library Legal Settlement Maine law in 1821 spelled out the conditions of legal settlement for its residents."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… to explore the Sandy River Valley for potential settlement. Famous hunter, Thomas Wilson, led the party consisting of Stephen Titcomb, Jr., Robert…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"This wealth of available water was very attractive to early settlers on Massachusetts’ frontier. Long before the settlement of Hampden, the native…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"Postscript: More Moving Buildings The Old House, Harbor Cottage, The Big Barn and the Old Ell were not the only structures in Asticou to move…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI

"Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI Kreisler, Fritz, perf. "Beautiful Ohio." Rec. ca. 1930. Open Source Audio Collection, n.d."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wartime on Mt. Desert Island

"Wartime on Mt. Desert Island Wartime did not pass MDI by. Many of the local men fought in the Revolutionary War and MDI continued to be represented…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"The Savage Family of Mount Desert Augustus Chase Savage & Family, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1890Mount Desert Island Historical Society Text by…"

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

"The Champlain Society Champlain Society Camp Pemetic, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society Significance of the…"