Maine Memory Network

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"The name "New" Portland was thus due to its roots to the original Portland. People came to live there in 1783, but the town was officially…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library

"New Portland Community Library New Portland Community Library X Click here to explore the New Portland Community Library Website! In 1988 a…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"On the seventh day they returned bringing the cables and fittings. Moses Mitchell Sr. and Samuel Parker were the boss teamsters."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"New Portland Fair 1951New Portland Historical Society In 1906 a corporation for a water company was formed. Warren B. Clark, E."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"… at Madigan” when asking permission to attend summer workshops. In the 1950s and 1960s, Mercy developed affiliations with Seton Psychiatric…"

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

"… job, some lobstermen operated fishing party boats summer afternoons, taking groups to catch mackerel, pollack, flounder, cod and haddock along the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"… that day, but via a motorcade on his way to Portland. A year later, he made his historic solo Atlantic crossing."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"In the 1600s walking from Scarborough to Portland could take two days via a circuitous dry-land route."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… A post rider could ride 30 miles on a clear summer day; but in stormy winter or foggy spring weather, he could ride only a few miles a day."

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

"Beginning in the 1860s, the Portland Railroad Company operated horse-drawn cars on rails that ran through Scarborough and other area towns."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"Summers were spent living alone and winters with relatives in New Hampshire. In 1961, Litchfield celebrated his 90th birthday at his niece’s home in…"

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"A summer day, after school ended for the year, created for picnics and the usually placid waters of Gardner’s Lake, east of Machias in far Washington…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… movement, anti-separationists spent the summer organizing, and on Election Day in September they showed up by the thousands to cast their votes…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… of the Isles (1901) was built for the Catholic summer help who worked for the wealthy summer families."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"In 1816, Maine experienced the “Year Without a Summer,” a devastating year for agriculture in which snow fell in June! Throughout the 1820s the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"… letters reveal that he helped get in the ice for summer, wood for winter, and hay for the animals. He lived on a farm on Roxbury Road in Mexico."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"For several summers in the mid-2000s, a team of student archeologists under the guidance of professors Rob Sanford and Nate Hamilton from the…"

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

"… settlers on Mount Desert Island, began taking in summer boarders at Harbor Cottage. From here on until the mid 1960s, the Savage family and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… and accommodating up to 12,000 patrons a day, now borders the present-day Avalon Village Retirement Community off Route 1A."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"The steamers also brought an increase in summer tourism. Celebration "The first landing of a passenger and freight steamer from the outside…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… athletes and quickly implemented a very strong summer basketball program (something that was not real prevalent at the time) that helped develop…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Attendance peaked at 12,000 during some summer weekends. With the beginning of World War I and the new found interest in automobiles people started…"