Maine Memory Network

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… independence was already underway, and this time it was more organized. Daniel Davis, one of the movement's literary leaders, published An Address…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… their remains were never found and the last time they were seen was off of the coast of Cape Cod at 7:10 P.M."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Colby College Special Collections

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"A violin player played for dancing – a jolly time, and it smelled so good – lots of hay…" Following this move, ownership of the barn transferred from…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"After time, the jammed ice under the bridge became to overwhelming for the bridge to hold because of the building pressure."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… wrote in 1857 that, “there have been, at one time, not less than twenty teachers from Maine in the different Normal Schools of Massachusetts.” The…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"Erroll Dearborn, President of the College at that time, purchased the Abbott School property; the Dormitory was sold to the Kappa Delta Phi…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"This person was saying “In these times of improper use, that the Young Folk were using the cup to add water to their drink."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… home of many retail stores, built at a variety of times, ranging from 1832 into the 1840s. Merchants' Row is a great part of history because of…"

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

"At the same time, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 which made it easier to ship products across the country."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2

"… that spans further back in history than the time it was built. The facility has accommodated many patients in the sixty-five years that the new…"

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"Newspapers in Lincoln were important over time in this area because they were people’s main source of communication."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"If I had to live in the time Aaron Woodbury lived in, I would have to invent all the things that we have now to make my life more comfortable."

Caribou Public Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… materials and manufacturing equipment and, in time, the means of getting the finished paper to market."

Prince Memorial Library

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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"By this time, Mercy had garnered a reputation for treating those unable to afford their own cost of care."

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

"… people are great and always willing to help in time of need. It will probably never be like it was in the 1860s."

Bangor Public Library

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