Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep

"… – focus turned to turning a profit, accumulating wealth, earning daily bread and more. Vocations developed taking full advantage of the bountiful…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Colonists drew on family wealth in order to invest, and familial bonds undergirded business partnerships."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… of Summer Street reflect Hampden’s 19th century wealth, for Hampden was a place of increasing industrialization."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong

"Within these pages you will find a wealth of local knowledge and treasures passed down and preserved for future generations."

Androscoggin Historical Society

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Steep Falls Library

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Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

"Webber, Sumner. Personal interview. 20 Apr. 2011. Whitman, William. ed. The Wealth and Industry of Maine. Augusta: Sprague, Owen and Nash, 1873."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"This wealth of available water was very attractive to early settlers on Massachusetts’ frontier. Long before the settlement of Hampden, the native…"

Boston Public Library

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Maine Irish Heritage Center

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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"These magazines provided a wealth of up to date fashion information, pattern diagrams (to be enlarged), fashion illustrations, and a variety of…"

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

"… are very different today, confirmed by a wealth of serious publications, academic and textile conservation programs, professional organizations…"

Old York Historical Society

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… of residential architecture built by men of wealth during the boom years of the 1920s. For John P."

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

"Bangor enjoyed the wealth that the lumbering business brought to them. However the Northwest Territories were beginning to be lumbered and the…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"… Society The Penobscot River has brought wealth and prosperity to Bangor, but it has also has been destructive."

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… by far the area’s largest employer, and the wealth it generates radiates concentrically throughout the River Valley, supporting merchants, loggers…"

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… a greater variety of services than ever before. A wealth of new equipment enabled the enlarged staff of the radiology department to access…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… formal gardens, estates reflecting their owners' wealth and rank. Soon the shoreline and hillsides were filled with estates belonging to bankers…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… “One is at a loss to comprehend the enormous wealth floating in solution in the ocean. At the lowest estimate, a cubit mile of seawater contains…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… of the town’s population is motivated to gain wealth and knowledge, and the other half, the more local population, is not as perfection-oriented."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… production of agricultural goods increased, their wealth and status in the community solidified. Farmers “had a great deal to do with town…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… to vary with the number of students and the wealth of the neighborhood it served. (Old Town Reports with Superintendent’s Report)…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Packed into this small downtown area is a wealth of architectural, economic and family history revealed in part by the stories connected to the sites…"