Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"The Guilford Town Hall was built on land donated by the Martin family. This beautiful building was lost to a fire in 1928."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"It was on this piece of land that the Norridgewock Abenakis established a village. The Native Americans of this tribe had for generations past roamed…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… the history books as the first Air Mail service landed in the field at the Hudson Farm. A parade ensued and was the beginning of a week-long…"

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

"… Mile Brook (Carrabassett River) searching for land suitable to build homes for their families. Samuel chose an intervale in Embden."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory

"The cost of purchasing the land and building the factory was $1,656.00. In 1871, 15,000 pounds of cheese was produced."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"John Church deeded two and a half acres of land to the citizens of Farmington, to create a Village Center."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"There is also mention of his business and political life in the Town Records. In 1806 Mr. Crosby was named the president of the First Bank in…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"In the year 1794 the Commonwealth made a large land grant to Bowdoin College consisting of four townships, one of which is now the incorporated Town…"

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

"The land was purchased from Hiram and Betsey Pease for the sum of $125.00, April 28, 1885. One source states that in September 1839, Reverend E.S."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Scarborough Town hall X Bibliography Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"… Society Before the Wharff house was built the land was all wooded area that the town had decided to change to farmland in order to build a house…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Welcome

"It creates a stronger sense of community through a greater understanding of the Town's culture, its past, and the lives of those who once called…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"The early Town Warrants tell us the town hired Henry to build a box for their town records and to make a roller for the town maps."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"While there is no apparent survey, it appears the homestead included all the land behind the house toward what is now Quebec Street."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"Carnegie gave $5000. Mr. Daniel Straw donated the land and another $5000.00 was raised by local citizens. Mr."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"The purchase price of the land was traditionally believed to be a bushel of beans down and a bushel of corn yearly."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"He purchased land, subdivided it, and created a new neighborhood near his home and with it, came a street that still bears his name."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

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

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"Two groups, the Scarborough Land Conservation Trust and the Friends of the Scarborough Marsh, formed to safeguard the town's open space, marshland…"

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

"… burned is the current school on the High School land. In 1919 Stockholm decided to build a grade C high school."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… New Englanders because there was plenty of land for younger sons to inherit. In 1763 the French and Indian Wars ended with the Paris Peace Treaty…"

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

"Lacking the agricultural land base of the other Colony towns Stockholm’s population, and economic base, has continued to shrink."

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

"… other tools to begin the hard job of clearing the land. They came back to The Sandy River area two weeks later."

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

"… to the ferry at Ferry Beach; and from the ferry landing at Pine Point, the traveler would proceed on the beach to Old Orchard."