Maine Memory Network

Fryeburg Public Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… bountiful fishing and hunting grounds in the Western Maine mountains. She was a Porter, on her mother’s side, and is buried in the Porter lot."

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… owns Alexander’s 1856 rendering of Bramhall, the Western Promenade Italianate mansion of John Bundy Brown, Portland’s leading businessman."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… and most likely helped design and build Fort Western, Fort Halifax, and the Pownalborough Courthouse."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… RR European and North American Railroad Western Depot, Bangor, 1904Bangor Public Library The European and North American Company was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… summer colony there while hardly touching the Western side of the island, including Northeast Harbor and the hamlet of Asticou."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… to be a forerunner in politics, education and Western Maine business practices. Home of the award-winning University of Maine at Farmington, a…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

""The 'disappearance' of the Abenaki in Western Maine: Political organizations and ethnocentric assumptions." American Indian Quarterly 17.2 (1993)…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"He wanted to explore the Western territory. Jacob was the town clerk, which is like a modern day secretary."

Maine State Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"The deer herd in Western Maine had suffered greatly by the 1890s. In the late 1800s game laws were put into place that regulated how many deer you…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"His father traveled to the Western Plains to recover his son’s body, but the body was never found. James's parents are buried in Strong, and an…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… were given deeds, and the rest of the land in western parts of Hancock County went to public auction, where it was purchased by Jarvis and his…"

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"Croix as the western end of the Chiputneticook Lakes, which would be the starting point for vexing questions about the interior route for decades to…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"It is a two span concrete slab bridge and is the western bridge of the pair. Records do not indicate what type of bridge was replaced by the present…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… era with tens of thousands finding way to Western Quoddy Head annually, they photograph their families adjacent to the tower and the granite…"

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

"While a new fort was built at the western side of Garrison Cove, the settlers lived aboard their ship."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"Up next was the State Final. For Western Maine, well-known Deering High of South Portland; for Eastern Maine, the Hampden Academy boys, a team that…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… another grocery store outlet, plumbing shop, Western Union, and at the end of the street the widely acclaimed Peg's Gift Shop, operated by the much…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… Ryder (1818-1881) who had inherited land on the western side of the harbor, built a small boarding house next to the steamboat wharf in the early…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… in 1839 coincides with the expansion of the western United States more so than the development of central and southern Maine."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… War Years challenged the tiny hamlet on the western shores of the Penobscot. The movement of new people into the settlement stopped, money became…"