Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… moved to Newcastle to pursue a new career as a traveling missionary. His journeys took him to Bangor, where he preached and taught school from 1812…"

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

"Travel was mainly by foot, horseback, boat or stagecoach until the mid-1800 arrival of trains. In 1842 the Eastern Railroad built a line connecting…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… all 236 incorporated towns in the state travelled to the Cumberland Country courthouse in Portland to write a new Maine constitution."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The women and children sometimes traveled to the water's edge to pick fiddleheads. They also grew Jerusalem artichokes, which were well liked among…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… of crossing the Kennebec will prove to carry travelers past Bath or bring more visitors to the city remains to be seen."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"Trask, in 1858, while traveling by a coach that cornered too sharply, Leonard and his traveling companions were thrown about very roughly."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… men became United States citizens when they traveled to Houlton in 1875. This undertaking provided a necessary step to New Sweden becoming a…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… the area, the Kennebec was a throughfare for traveling bands of Indians, including the Abenaki tribe of Algonquins."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Dixfield citizens traveled from all points of the town to hold a day-long gathering to vote on important elected positions of the town and to discuss…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… that had a tie up for horses and lodging for travelers. In 1798 a road to the Swift River along the Androscoggin River was built and called Rumford…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"Between October 1912 and April 1913, he traveled in Europe, spending much of his time in Italy. Upon returning to Boston, he worked on the new MIT…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"Sometimes, this took the form of traveling, making speeches, writing letters to state, national, and international authorities, and sometimes this…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"These traveling teams had names as colorful as the players themselves; like the House of David team with all the players sporting long dark beards…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Many Indian tribes in Maine were nomadic, traveling to the coast in the summer for fishing, stopping to plant crops in fertile lands along the way."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"Travel around the island was by water or rickety “buckboard” carriages on rough, bumpy, steep buckboard roads."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They traveled the ocean, rivers, lakes and ponds in birch bark canoes, making seasonal journeys to hunt and gather wild animal and plant foods."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Although travel on the Penobscot River remained important to Hampden, an alternative means of transportation became available in 1897."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… settled in Farmington, because about 1791 he traveled here with his family, along with John Church."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… 97 men and one woman from North Yarmouth and 62 men from Cumberland had left their hometowns and traveled south to serve in the US military at some…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… regularly by the Bar Harbor Club pool, and traveling theater companies were visiting the village."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… docile for most of the year, making it hard for travelers on the Rt. 2 & 4 bridge to imagine it strong enough to move mammoth chunks of ice and…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"While many young men along the eastern seaboard traveled west to seek their fortunes, some chose to experience the northern frontier of Aroostook…"