Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

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

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… 18, 1803, they were granted half a township of land out of any unappropriated lands in the district to use for building the Academy."

Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus

"… exploitation had wrought worsening scarcities of land, hay, fish, lumber, timber and firewood in Southern New England’s old towns." A better life…"

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

"… prompted voted to build the road and pay land damages - $1,900 being the amount of the latter."

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

"Richard King House, Dunstan Landing, Scarborough, ca. 1930Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Richard King Richard King, born in 1718 in Boston…"

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

"… to the Dyer family who had previously owned the land. Old school records show that Eleanor Wendell Taylor taught at the Parson's School, 1935…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… was a member of the FIFTH Amphibious Corps that landed under withering fire and participated in the successful assault on Mount Suribachi where…"

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place ~ Once Again

"… she will still send them forth to every mountain, plain and sea, perhaps, and may they do as well as those who are now citizens of every land."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The forest provided game for the table. As land was cleared, wheat and corn were planted later to be turned into flour, food crops were planted, as…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"This helped the town then and the town now. It helps our town now because we still have a mill but it is now a tissue and paper mill instead of a…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… Vaughan, John Merrick and others were hired as land agents by the Proprietors to protect and develop the one and one-half million acres of land…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"A town civic center was built in 1980, and six years later the Surry Elementary School, which replaced the Claude L."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… veterans used government-backed grants to claim land elsewhere in the state, others remained and pushed outward to North Scarborough."

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

"… Portland could take two days via a circuitous dry-land route. Because of Scarborough’s unique geography consisting of marsh and rivers, it was…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"Still a “happy home of hundreds,” today the little town of Surry retains much of its original charm, communal pride and spirit. As F.L."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"Steamboats, however, did not usually transport residents of Islesboro to or from nearby towns on this side of Penobscot Bay such as Belfast or Camden."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… communities until the arrival of the Islesboro Land and Improvement Company in 1888, which began buying large parcels of farm land at the southern…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… welcomed its first summer visitors when its landing was built shortly after the Ryder Landing."

Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors

"Also, it made sure everyone in our town had a car, if you could afford it. This building is a part of our town and it helped keep our town alive back…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"Eventually, the town decided the building needed to be torn down; but Jeannette King talked to the town manager about her interest in the building."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… General Court, anxious to see the "eastern lands" settled, readily made grants of land to individuals or larger groups."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… shipyard was located at the present day town landing. Frank Jellison, who served many years as a Surry selectman, was ten years old in 1873 when he…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"They found a land totalling 6,000 acres, mostly wooded with little good timber, barren ledges and swamps."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"He could have used his land for anything and he could have sold the lumber. He also could have sold his vegetables that he made in his garden."