Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"They named the island they camped on that first winter “St. Croix,” either as a reflection of the cross-shaped conjunction of the rivers around it or…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"There were some winter obstacles involved getting cotton to the mill, such as ice on the river, making it hard to get the cotton delivered."

Lubec, Maine - Team Members

"Box 422 Lubec, ME 04652-0422 (207) 733-2997 Fall/Winter/Spring (207) 733-2197 Summer http://www.mccurdyssmokehouse.org Lubec Memorial Library 55…"

Life on a Tidal River - Doughty Students

"Bill Cook. X Students scan images during a winter break work session at the Bangor Public Library."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Welcome

"… its past, and the lives of those who once called Scarborough home. Sunset on Scarborough Marsh X A Winter View of Scarborough Marsh X"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"In winter, trains were warm and were lit with kerosene lanterns. Snow removal from the tracks could be dangerous, requiring trains to back up, regain…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse

"Both floors were heated by a wood stove in the winter. Minturn student Marion Stinson recalls: "...we’d take a big potato and put it in a coffee can…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"… whooping cough, coping with deep snow in the winter, and moving back to Reed Harding's house in 1835."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865

"… Street, found business especially slow in the winter of 1865. He reported that he "employed my vacant hours in making a rustick armed chair, a…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Harris House, Bangor, ca. 1850

"… made other changes when he began using it as his winter residence in about 1861. Martin noted that Reuben Bagley built the house in 1836."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Liz, widow Clark, Bangor, 1848

"… from Castine, about 25, appeared in Bangor in the winter of 1848. Both were "handsome in the extreme" and "were first seen promernading Kenduskeag…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"1910. Winter Carnival arrivals, New Sweden, 1936New Sweden Historical Society The railroads would not only offer a means of transporting…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… popular, but they could not drive them in the winter and spring. Because the snow covered the roads, and in the spring, the car would ruin the road…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… RailroadJesup Memorial Library Bring half-worn winter garments, with boots ditto, to be prepared for tramping and excursions."

Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"… This process was done during the spring because glue could not be made in hot weather, nor a large quantity in the winter on account of it drying."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"Before the snows of the following winter fell, these energetic first settlers had hewn timber, procured boards and planks from the mill at Cobbossee…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… the Androscoggin River flowing high with melting winter snows from fields, from dark forests, water crashing to granite rock, spray leaping high in…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"Terrible! Cold in the winter and cold and wet in the summer. Horrible. I can remember my father in the winter staring the kitchen window at the…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"Levy and Abbie Murphy Winter, in Lynn, Massachusetts, where the Winters resided. Throughout their marriage, Richardson and Carrie Johnson raised four…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… the following year, the boys having survived the winter on cow’s milk, hulled corn, boiled wheat, and roasted potatoes. In September of 1806 Mrs."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… affair through above-ground pipes; in the winter one needed to fetch fresh water by taking buckets down to the brook next to the house and there…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… area and in 1781 eight families spent their first winter in the new settlement. Out of the six original explorers who marked out their lots in 1776…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"Winter Carnival arrivals, New Sweden, 1936New Sweden Historical Society Railroad Station, Stockholm, ca."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"… the local people to eat, and many people in the winter come up and end up eating there. So throughout the years Eureka Hall hasn't always been…"