Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… topic, write a creative piece (haiku, cinquain, story, song) about it" Cars Shiny, Dirty Parking, Driving, Steering Riding Down the Roads of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… topic, write a creative piece (haiku, cinquain, story, song) about it" Trains... Railroad, tracks Delivering, connecting, shipping Lincoln people…"

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

"Recently, the press has had stories related to a shooting and boats being sunk over territorial disputes! A reason for the local decline in observing…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… worked in the larger section that was like a one-story barn. Bickford built five more lobster boats between 1937 and 1945."

Maine State Museum

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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… newly-named Strong Post Office moved to a three-story structure, customers would enter at the basement level from the sidewalk."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Islanders have fond memories and horror stories of school life before and after consolidation. Island teachers, like many small-town teachers of the…"

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

"A story continues even today that for years and years after the medicinal fish oil factory closed for business, people could still smell the cod…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"Linda Farr Macgregor, in her Rumford Stories, interviewed other artists and musicians, including Naomi Davis Robertson, a quilter with the Lady of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… is there a Buckfield Hill in Byron? What’s the story of the Buckfield and Rumford Falls Railroad, or all those stagecoach lines that used to run…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"History of the Town of Mexico, E. G. Kimball A Story of the Town of Mexico 1818-1968: One Hundred Fiftieth Birthday Celebration and what has gone…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… Tuscan Opera House is an impressive four-storied building. There was a kitchen and dining room in the basement, theater and dance hall on the…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… founder of the Sisters of Mercy X The story of Mercy Hospital has its origins in Ireland, where its founding order began in the early…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… 11th Maine written after the Civil War tells the story of Luther’s last moments. During the battle at Deep Bottom, in hot, humid weather of more…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"The store was one-and-one-half stories and it opened for business in 1901. The store was named the Anderson Brothers Store, but everyone knew it as…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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

"… this claymation movie depicting Stephen Titcomb’s story. They took 561 pictures in its creation and have been presenting it to other classes to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"He has built during the past season, a fine two story brick house, in Mrs. Daniel Belcher’s beautiful garden, and Margaret went to Boston, and spent…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"But memories are kept alive in the stories told by an ever-shrinking population of residents who fondly recall a simpler time long ago, on a summer’s…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… Society Behind the Pythias Hall stood the two-story gabled structure which long housed Lubec firefighting apparatus."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"It is a large three-story brick edifice. The building has a gambrel roof with several corners and dentils."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Print. The Story of Bangor: A Brief History of Maine’s Queen City. Bangor, Maine: BookMarc’s Publishing, 1999. Print."

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"… topic, write a creative piece (haiku, cinquain, story, song) about it" Indians Reside The first Catholics they were In our peaceful town Nineteen…"