Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan History House

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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… primeval forest, stretching back from the rugged shores of a beautiful bay. No echo of human industry to break the silence of the savage region…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… were six or more fish factories mostly on the shores of Minturn and Swan’s Island Village. Spurling’s Wharf on the Atlantic side was a factory that…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… had the Thurston’s or “winter" School on the shore of the Androscoggin River near the Aaron Graham/Bartlett/Welch farm, which the south-side…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… which could carry men and provisions from one shore to the other. When Mexico celebrated its 150th birthday, E."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"The absence of a lake shore or a pond for summer recreation was in part replaced by shallow pools on the Swift River, known as ABC, and covered for…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Seals are frequently spotted off shore in the summer, especially on a small island known, coincidently enough, as Seal Island."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… and children’s nurse for almost 10 years at North Shore Baby Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… assistant engineer for the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway. He was in charge of the task of building a rail line from Duluth, Minnesota to…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… open-air stage casino, picnic spots along the shore, and even live alligators on display in their own specially built pools."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… the time, farming, ship-building, lumbering and shore fishing. And in Surry, as I remember it in those days, there was really much business…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… have been discovered in shell middens along the shores of Mill Creek and South Bay. The very word “Passamaquoddy” means “pollock plenty place” in…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… the cluster of houses and businesses near the shore, the road that is now Route 115 quickly gave way to forest and scattered clearings."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Narrows across from Chops Point on the eastern shore of the Kennebec and the Clarke and Lake Post in Arrowsic."

Acadian Archives

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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