Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 7 of 17

"… was international and products shipped all the way to India and Sri Lanka. The Laconia Mills were one of the earliest established textile mills on…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"Ice was the primary way of preserving food until freon refrigeration was created in the early 1900s."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"… and industries were using the local water ways advantageously, nearly 17 sawmills were erected in Saco by 1800."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - -Across the Sea- a history through transportation

"… their unique environment, constantly finding new ways to carry goods, people, and information to and from their remote home."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Commercial article on World's Fair contest

"John Martin and Miss Mabel Martin leave on this morning’s train for the World’s Fair, making a short stop at Portland on the way.""

John Martin: Expert Observer - Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846

"Martin devised a way to get Old Bill on a ferry gundalow by "making the horses head fast and shocking the wheels." The illustration is on page 234 of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"Way Back Ball, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum Neighborhood houses and community halls had popped up in almost every village."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"… off from the hospital I started coming this way (north) and when James saw the sign for Old Town he said, “This isn’t the way to Waterville."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… along the bottom of the horseshoe of Asticou Way roughly where the present home of Tom Savage at 8 Asticou Way is located."

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"The size and the way cars and/or trucks use up gas has changed a lot, and the price of gas has changed too. Cars and trucks are made differently."

Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors

"The first way is, one time my mom’s car had to be fixed there and it had to stay there a few hours. I had school, so I had to walk that day when I…"

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"The first way it connects to my life is that I have a lot of family out of state. If Lincoln had never gotten their own postal office, then I would…"

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"… have changed and stayed the same in many ways. Farmers were important to The news because there were many stories about them in the paper."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"They charge $50 to kill a cow either way. Pig processing costs 45 cents per pound dressed; federal pigs cost 70 cents per pound dressed; $35 to kill…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"This gave the people of Buckfield a way to get everything they needed while still remaining in the town."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"… an aspect of family history) or were in some way connected to the state. Provenance may stem from the original owner, a family member or…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 2 of 3

"… life, and profession in a uniquely outward facing way. Clothing as a primary resource contextualizes social, economic, and environmental aspects of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… they migrated between seacoast and inlands by way of ancient canoe routes. Penobscot snowshoes, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"As people in far a way places began to see these images they decided to visit MDI for themselves. Boarding houses were built to accommodate this new…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… which is in the soul like a fountain of cool waters to the way-worn travelers. -Thomas Cole, painter, 1836 Continue to Arriving in Bar Harbor"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… small boat with seven men aboard slowly made its way up the Kennebec River. They had sailed from the Plymouth Plantation with a cargo of corn, the…"

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… traffic just as the granite industry gave way to concrete and steel. Last Coal Barge, Hallowell, ca."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"… a nickel to buy her favorite candy bar, a Milky Way. For lunch she would bring a sandwich, such as a peanut butter, tuna, or egg salad."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"The unpicked potatoes would be in the way of the truck passing through to unload empty barrels or to pick up full ones."