Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… year, however, classes were held in the town hall. Within a few years of the second fire, the events of the Civil War called away so many…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Women's Firsts

"… Swan's Island Historical Society As in many rural towns and villages, island women’s firsts have been overlooked in the era of women’s rights and…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"In 1916 the Masonic hall and the Odd Fellows Hall replaced the old school house. All of the past buildings in this location were further known as the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"… Fronk, Harvey Gilbert, Percy Gould, Thurlow Hall, Vern Hardy, Mertland Hillman, Hiram Hiscock, Tyler Hutchinson, Carroll Jones, Dana Knowlton…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… company also had its own store called the Veneer Hall which was used for movies and dances and meetings and church services."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"It wasn’t really a gym at all, but the town hall. It was the first floor of the town hall that was used as the “multipurpose room.” Hampden Academy…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"… courts, a beautiful gymnasium, and a new assembly hall with a stage for putting on plays and other events."

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

"… Company also had its own store and the Veneer Hall, which was used for movies and dances and meetings and church services."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… in the schoolhouse that later became the Grange Hall, located on the road now known as Lambert Hill Road."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"The altar in a Grange hall usually displays an open Bible, agricultural tools, and an American flag."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along the Penobscot from making trips to Boston when necessary."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… second floor of the Parker School and at Union Hall (Community Hall), with eighty-two pupils enrolled altogether."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm of 1998

"Each day the power was getting back town by town. January 13,1998 •DAY 7. The ice was melting January 14,1998 •DAY 8. The final day of the storm."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Holiday Events

"After a brief ceremony at the town memorial park, people walk down to the fisherman’s co-op wharf and watch a wreath being thrown into the harbor…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… reminded that a meeting will be held in the town Hall next Saturday afternoon, at 2 o’clock for the purpose of acting upon the question of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1925

"… right), built in 1923 to replace the Odd Fellows Hall after it burned in 1922, suggests that this photo was taken around 1925."

Historic Hallowell - Police and Fire Citations

"Annual report. 1904 member, of the town. Annual report. 1905 member, of the town. Annual report. 1906. member, of the town. Annual report. 1907."

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

"… Farmington State Normal School began in Beal's Hall, located in downtown Farmington, on August 24, 1864."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Exhibits

"… are not really different from other small Maine towns. In some ways we are different. So please enter our exhibits, listen to our stories, and make…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… For some fifty years after the settlement of this town there was no postoffice here Such mail as was received stopped at the postoffice either at…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"It is next to today’s Post Office/Town Office building. Three skaters at the Quarry Pond, Swan's Island, 1949Swan's Island Historical Society…"

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…"

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"Surry's Old Town Hall, built around 1828, (and later moved to its present site on the Surry Road) houses its collections, including a detailed…"

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"… lot of Main and Burton St., next is the Masonic Hall where the Town Offices are now located. The beautiful building on the right was the Litton…"