Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor 21st Century Decline In 2008, a fire erupted in the Colonial’s restaurant on Main Street and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor A TALE OF BOOM AND DECLINE Text by Brook Ewing Minner and Hannah Stevens, with additional…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"1910McArthur Public Library The earliest settlers lived almost entirely in the area immediately near the mouth of the river and on the large hill…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"Instead, they sued settlers who claimed land under rival syndicates. Some settlers came to Maine at the encouragement of proprietary or colonization…"

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

"More settlers followed and began to farm along the coast. The settlements grew in population taking more and more land, which created tensions with…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"Settlers fled to the safety of the fort, while their homes and livestock were destroyed as before, and many, daring not to return to their homes…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"Even as Wabanaki people strove to incorporate settlers into their Indigenous cultural and economic systems, the settlers sought their signatures and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"Those settlers quickly discovered the ease of providing food, shelter, and clothing for their families."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Index

"… Industry - Agriculture Culture - Main Page Early Settlers - Main Page Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase - People Education - Main Page Farmington's…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's First Grist Mill

"… which greatly increased the kinds of food the settlers ate, as well as allowed them to store the flour for later use."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"Above all, settlers feared that they might be forced into tenancy or wage labor. For them, freehold landownership promised independence from…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"Many lives were lost on both sides, and for some time many of the settlers fled south away from the frontier, and most of the remaining natives fled…"

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… about farming or earning a living the first settlers had to put a roof over their heads and cut enough firewood to heat their homes and cook their…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… over the horizon, with the coming of the white settlers and more importantly the wars those settlers would bring across the sea with them from the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"… in the collections exist largely because English settlers needed evidence to validate their claims to Wabanaki land, against other settlers and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… always been making our own history, but that settlers have never fully recognized our self-determination or really trusted us with it."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… Maine wilderness and attempted to entice European settlers to purchase, settle, and develop the lands."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"A world away, the Swan’s Island settlers had taken matters into their own hands. Swan mortgaged the island in 1812, and in 1824 settlers were given…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"… like India, and, for that reason, early English settlers named it after the city of Bombay India, and the hook in the Kennebec River just below the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Flora Brooks, Lying in Repose, 1922

"… great-grandfather, Francis Tufts was an original settler, and the family continues to reside in the area."

Lincoln, Maine - Founding Fathers & Early History

"… something interesting about Lincoln's history.   Grant Clay Interview on Early Lincoln   John Edwards Interview on Early Settlers"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… Martha Ballard (1735-1812) exemplifies female settlers’ varied and extensive responsibilities. Ballard’s husband, Ephraim, was surveyor and agent…"

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

"The key conflicts seem to be between the large land-owning proprietors and the settler-occupants of these tracts of land, often without a mention of…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"… First Dwelling Deacon Pease Clark, Settler's Lot, Hallowell, 1761Courtesy of Sumner A."