Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"He also designed the Winter Street Church on Washington Street in Bath, five years later, and they looked a lot alike."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… it upon the waste land near by, and such other work as we could procure for them." There is little doubt that to these men and women the mill work…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"… Society During the Civil War, Maine laborers worked in logging, milling, papermaking, built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined and cut…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 5 of 17

"Even when cotton manufacturing became scarce, they worked on army tents, wagon covers, heavy drills, and jeans for military use."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"… of knowledge, the training of power; and the working of a spirit of human solidarity, a comprehension of the continuity of life: its universal…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 2 of 2

"… While most immigrants were drawn to the area to work in the huge textile mills, many became entrepreneurs in their own right and opened small…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot

"Through working together, these communities have been able to quell incredibly violent and costly infernos that have consumed both sides of the Saco…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 1 of 17

"People were migrating to the area to work in the mills and the supporting businesses that supplied them."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"… onset of World War II and the sudden effluence of work and good wages. All the plants managed to scrape by during the Depression, and when war…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… out on one of the coldest nights of the coldest winters, in the boot and shoe store of Samuel Foote on Front Street, north of Merchants' Row."

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

"1 (Winter 2014): 1-35. Champlain, Samuel de. "Les Voyages de La Nouvelle-France Occidentale," Dicte Canada. Paris, 1632. Fischer, David Hackett."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"The companies worked hard to innovate and improve themselves, but the post-war economies and business environment were setting them on a path of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 9 of 17

"… immigrants migrated to Biddeford and Saco to work in textile mills, ice harvesting manufactures, lumber mills, and granite quarries."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Draining the quarry

"… the rain filled up the pit and iced over in the winter to make a popular skating pond. When the pond was drained in 2003, many treasures were…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"… years to overcome, in addition to an ever deepening city debt that administration after administration would work to extinguish. Read more...."

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…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - ABOUT US

"… fifteen students involved in a variety of classes working towards their high school diploma. When students were asked what Project Aspire is, Shea…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… the Saco Manufacturing Company and the Saco Iron Works opened on Cutts Island in Saco; the precursor to the industrialization which would be the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"Residents and stakeholders from out of town have worked hard over the last 15 years or so to create a sense of hope and renewal in this plucky city."

Life on a Tidal River - Doughty Students

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

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"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 - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective

"During the winter they visited the Maine State Museum and the Archives to further their understanding of how history is saved and recorded."