Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"… 1923 with the Bureau of Weights and Measures in Washington, DC thus beginning service to her country that lasted 40 years."

Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations

"Around Hallowell. One Washington Center, Dover, New Hampshire 03820: Arcadia Publishing, 1996 "Calcium Carbonate." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895. Moulton, Augustus. Grandfather Tales of Scarborough. Katahdin Publishing Co., 1925 Robinson, Brian."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… During the early stages of the revolution, George Washington gave orders for Benedict Arnold, a 35 year old colonel, to co-lead an expedition to…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"at the corner of Vermont and U Streets in northwest Washington, D.C. Phebe and Olin met in Surry upon his return from five years on the battlefields…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"Washington B. Thomas The Washington B. Thomas was a five-masted schooner of a type called a fore-and-after."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 1 of 2

"… and Displays By then the well-decorated Masons’ Washington Lodge #37 building, seen on the left below, was 56 years old."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… the east of Robinson, was killed in a duel near Washington, D.C. in 1838, at which time Robinson was elected to fill the remainder of his term."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"… the war, did you get enlisted? I was working in Washington after graduating from Colby, and I received a notice from Holliston that I was to be…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… in 1868 and spend the rest of his life in Washington, D.C. When war broke out between the states in 1861, the first company of Biddeford volunteers…"

Maine Maritime Museum

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… its way from full statehood status was a vote in Washington to admit it into the Union. [28] For a detailed account of the transition in…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… for the District of Passamaquoddy by George Washington. With the end of the war in 1783 and formation of the federal government efforts were made…"

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… where’ in the form of a few paragraphs" Albert Washington Weatherbee was born in Springfield, Maine on April 30th, 1841 and died in 1904, in…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"With no delegates from Washington or Hancock counties, little interest from York County and objections due to the Coasting Law, the effort soon died…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Superintendent of Eastern Indians by George Washington 1783 • War of Independence ends with signing of Treaty of Paris 1789 • Louis Delesdernier…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… Newburyport, Salem, Thomaston, Boston, Portland, Washington City, New York, and New Bedford. What came into Hallowell were product such as cloth…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… old John Trenholm barber shop on the left side of Washington Street, Highway 189, close in proximity to the future Lubec side bridge approach."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"Based mostly in Washington, D.C. during peacetime, he also served as president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club from 1927 to 1941."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… well as the nearly ten years he served as George Washington's Secretary at War under the Articles of Confederation and later Secretary of War under…"

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

"… War from 1785 to 1794 and close friend of George Washington, left his duties and retired to Thomaston in 1795, arriving on a sloop via the St."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Once in Washington, the 1st Maine performed guard duty in Washington, and received more training. At this time the capitol was in great danger from…"

The General Henry Knox Museum

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Penobscot Marine Museum

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