Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Josh Shaw "What if the post office never existed?" The postal service refers to the post offices and mailing."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… navigation, agricultural societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners…"

Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"Post Office and Fire Station Hallowell Post OfficeHubbard Free Library Judy Longfellow, Post Woman written by Sam Gilbert Q How old were you…"

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office, Lincoln, Built in 1856

"Post Office, Lincoln, Built in 1856 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The Lincoln Post Office was in the Plumly…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Boy at Bangor post Civil War parade, 1865

"Boy at Bangor post Civil War parade, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - JP Cilley Ledger From Post

"JP Cilley Ledger From Post A Brief Timeline of Jonathan Prince Cilley’s Life and Service Record § Born on December 29, 1835."

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Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"But the post-war years brought some hope for the future in the form of a renewed interest in historic preservation."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"Post Office, which is on Winthrop Street and still stands today. Unlike most of the sailors of Hallowell, when Agry was only eighteen, he was the…"

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… location necessitated the construction of a new Post Office in Hallowell. His business at one point occupied an entire city block, employed 100…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… vessel Lyon from England to establish a trading post on lower Wadsworth Street, specifically for trading with the Wawenock, Tarratine and Penobscot…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"… a settlement of families in the vicinity of the trading post in 1719. Land patents were only profitable to their owners if families were enticed to…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… industries, resuming the quarrying of lime and trading at Limestone Hill and the wharves at the river."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Fales Edgarton House

"… Society There are no remains of the early 1630 trading post at the base of Wadsworth Street, and only a handful of 18th century homes survive…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"When the building opened in 1858, Joseph Berry was Collector of Customs and Joseph C. Snow was U.S. Postmaster. The U.S. Post Office moved to its…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… into a cash economy based around the European trading posts and ended the highly mobile way of life that had persisted since the Ice Age."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"The Guilford Board of Trade proclaimed the 100 year anniversary of the town's existence. Committees and sub committees were appointed; buildings were…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… region in 1676 with raids on both the Hammond Trading Post at the Narrows across from Chops Point on the eastern shore of the Kennebec and the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… is known about the early businesses and trades till after the island's incorporation in 1789, except that many were involved in harvesting of wood…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"… Free Library? X Front Street, From Post Office Square, Bath. ca. 1930Patten Free Library A year-long learning experience that has…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"… traders to operate in the area, destroyed the trading posts and drove away the small number of English settler colonists there."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945

"… A Northeast Airlines DC-3 is parked at the post World War II Presque Isle Air Terminal Building on outer Mechanic Street bordering Presque Isle…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"Fly Rod attended large outdoor trade shows in Boston and New York, where she advocated for the Narrow Gauge Railroad as a means of accessing…"