Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… of Indians will have during the season, at the shore between Suminsby’s and Steamboat Wharf, Bar Harbor, a number of Birch-bark canoes, in which he…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"… ice houses like “Ice Mania”, covered the shores of the Kennebec River. Ice men are guiding ice blocks toward the steam-powered conveyor belt."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Bulldozing and burning of debris cleared the shore to bare ground. Construction commenced with building of U.S."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… exploring upriver where he erected a cross on the shore in “ that part of the riuer which trended Westward into the maine.” During the Thomaston…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… it’s likely that some Scarborough men fished off shore on commercial vessels at the Banks or in recent years, aboard draggers, trawlers or…"

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

"… was a shed for interchange with the Atlantic Shore Railroad to York County points.(5) Rising operating costs and increasing use of automobiles…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"Kineo along the shores of Moosehead Lake.Maine Historical Society The pen name “Fly Rod” first was printed in the Phillips Phonograph."

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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… widespread, especially along the Massachusetts shore. The two-masted schooner Fannie and Edith was headed to Bangor from Boston when the schooner…"

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

"… Harbor beach, and one on the Northeast Harbor shore. Higgins Saw Mill, Somesville, 1890Southwest Harbor Public Library By statehood in 1820…"

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

"… company and under good pilotage along the rocky shore, landing for our geological discoveries even as old Champlain may have landed for his…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… view the sheer cliffs of the the island’s eastern shore, and visit the villages of Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Somesville."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… land to summer residents along the Eastern shore of Northeast Harbor. Cranberry Lodge (Formerly Harbor Cottage) Northeast Harbor Maine, Winter…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… fellow tribesmen to hunt seals or gulls from the shores of other islands on the Maine seacoast. Perhaps he yearned for the breath of freedom on…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… such as mills, began to set up shop along the shores of the Vaughan Stream. The Vaughan Stream was hard to navigate because of its small size."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… pole the boat, while the other two would walk on shore to relieve them later. The bateaux held the men's guns, ammunition, food and supplies."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… Cove, which was more isolated on the Northeastern shore, the Hewes Point landing was near the Main Road and the former community of Guinea."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… and we were 10 days in my boat and we went to the shore. Well we sit around our boat so long when we started to get out of the boat, most of us…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Years challenged the tiny hamlet on the western shores of the Penobscot. The movement of new people into the settlement stopped, money became…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… board the yacht Shawna with car headlights from shore providing the lighting and student musicians providing music from a nearby ship."

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

"… its situation, its sparkling bay, its inlets, its shores, its landscape of hill, dale, and plain ; they were pleased with it, and the testimony of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"Shore dinner places, such as the Dunscroft and Wayland, tourist cabins and lodging houses attracted motorists; and large guest hotels on the coast…"

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

"… and trading post on islands about three miles off shore. Stratton and his companions traded with Indians and the fishing fleets that visited the…"