Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"Higher education was later provided at Stephens High School on York Street. It was built in 1911, with additions being made in 1915, 1917 and 1931."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… in Fall River, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Germantown, Pennsylvania. He is remembered as a prolific writer of hymns, the compiler of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… Snow went on to work in education Chicago and New York before she died in New York on March 21, 1924. She was 65 years old and is buried in Bangor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… Harbor and Ellsworth or via the internet to New York or Beijing. Sources Used Down Memory Lane by Emily Phillips Reynolds Mount Desert: A History…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Because of the warm winter, Massachusetts and New York had to buy their ice from Maine. The ice cutting industries in Hallowell Maine were used to…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… became a subsidiary of Desco Company in New York. In 1964, a night shift was added from 5pm to 10pm."

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… the Socialist Workers Party headquarters in New York City dated March 13,1895 to Protasio Neri showed him to be involved in organizing the workers…"

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… packages to the Colored Seaman’s Home in New York and placed the following in its Annual Report: Thus we may have the satisfaction of feeling that…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"… potatoes in markets as far away as Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The real problem was getting the crops to market because the roads were…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"He was a stock holder that worked in New York and he took a shine to my father. It was 1929- sometime in the summer- and he said to my father, “I…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… interchange with the Atlantic Shore Railroad to York County points.(5) Rising operating costs and increasing use of automobiles weakened the…"

Abbe Museum

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Bridgton Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… Road went across the Thad White Bridge, past York Hill, and on to Poplar Hill. There was a county road that went from Dixfield up to the north side…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"Additionally, towns in York County sought to remain part of Massachusetts because of their close proximity to Boston, while towns across the District…"

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… as a structural and bridge engineer in New York. George M. Coombs’s thirty-seven-year career as an architect ended with his death in 1909 at the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… principal architects, Carrere and Hastings of New York for a project in which the Stevens firm served as associate architects."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"Rusticators were primarily from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and some from as far away as Ohio."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… clipper ships carrying gold prospectors from New York to California, cotton from India to England, and bird guano from South America to Europe."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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

"This gold was sent to New York and proved to be enough to convince investors that a fortune was to be had."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… coast, buying lobsters to carry to Boston and New York. As the demand for lobsters grew, something else opened up the lobster market -- canning."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… cities in the United States such as Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. At this time a back to the land movement of sorts emerged."