Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… hills and steams/The streams that furnished water power/Before days we knew of steam. But the mills that once run buzzing saws/Have now gone to…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… in 1850, would eventually provide of a clean water system for the village; the system was developed because of the need of water for both…"

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

"… will be some three or four feet above the highest water mark. Dec. 8, 1870: Saturday night our citizens were greeted with the whistle of the first…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"He worked as a water boy for the construction crew of the European and North American Railroad. Upon the death of his father, Arthur headed west to…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, Sweet Water, About Me, Child Of Mine, Room To Grow, and The Conversation Begins are her titles."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"Travel routes were primarily over the water; there were few and very primitive roads. Land-based travel kept towns logistically separated from one…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The river got very polluted when the sewage and toilet waste got flushed into the river. All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The river got very polluted when the sewage and toilet waste got flushed into the river. All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"Explore the location of mills compared to water sources. Try to discern if a connection exists between school sites and cultural sites."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"At first, the fire station got the water from the river using a pump that was in the mill. In the first year after it was built, they raised $944 to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… are really nice and kind of breezy because of the water. Good thing there’s no ice yet, the river would freeze and I might not be able to take the…"

Maine State Museum

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

"One can picture the young family toting water and feed to the barn animals. Phebe played the piano and left behind her music books, including the…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"… 10 was trapped on top of their car by the flood waters. A human chain of rescuers were able to save 9 of them but an 8 year old girl was swept away."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"The part of the railroad that ran along Water Street was removed when the road was widened. Other parts of the railroad have been covered up by…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… was that Ethyl had to complete the waste water treatment in accordance with federal laws or allow funding for its completion."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… had its first water company, the Presque Isle Water Company, which built and operated the reservoir at Mantle Lake to supply the town with water…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… the lumber, but Bangor was also the last deep water port on the Penobscot, with the Kenduskeag Stream ideally located nearby."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"In 1875, the city established a water system and 13 years later, the Bangor Street Railway began to lay track to provide transportation service to a…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… Rich soil and the Sandy River, a source of water, travel and power lured settlers to the region on the heels of the Revolutionary War."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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