Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… an office in the Empire State Building in New York City to further market the ever increasing fabric offerings."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… Traveling in a snowstorm from Portland to New York on 14 January 1934, the Eastern Steamship Company’s freighter Sagamore punctured its hull when…"

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

"Rufus represented New York in the United States Senate; and as a senator, worked on the Missouri Compromise that permitted Maine to enter the Union…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… he operated at Newbury Neck came from Boston, New York and other ports in ships which Coggins owned."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… attention with coverage on CBS news, in the New York Times, People Magazine, Opera News, and the Boston Globe."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… New Hampshire, Vermont, and Northern New York, which included the Rumford Falls Paper Company."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… Cerberus Capital Management L.P., a private New York-based investment firm. The paper mill has existed for over a hundred years."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As upset as he was with the "negative" changes in society and especially their effects on his…"

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

"… American Railroad, which was intended to link New York with Canada and, via ships, to Europe. It would be the final step in the transcontinental…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… products to markets in Portland, Boston, New York and beyond. Several generations of Dolloffs used the premises primarily as a dairy farm."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… the Great Fires of 1947, a series of blazes from York County to Mount Desert Island hit Maine during an extremely dry autumn."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Abenakis.” (The Sandy River & Its Valley, Vincent York) Although the early Indian settlements were largely uninhabited by the time the first white…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Industry Julius Wolff, a food broker from New York, arrived on the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay in 1875 attracted by the abundance of small herring…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"What inspired New York investors to come there was a well-established and well-known fishery involving harvesting herring for smoking and pickling."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field Book. New York: Harper Brothers, 1896. Print. Scott, Geraldin Tidd."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"… married Melinda Carlton and farmed in New York and Avon and in Freeman. He enlisted from Freeman as a Sergeant in the Company D 28th Maine Infantry…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… the journey from Maine and down into New York in a letter to his father back home. Once in Washington, the 1st Maine performed guard duty in…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"After the death of his wife, Jacob moved to New York and his brother, Samuel P Abbott took over Little Blue, and opened it as a school for boys in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… Fulton Redman, spent most of the year in New York and summers in Bar Harbor. He was also an avid supporter of the Ku Klux Klan."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… High School, she attended Elmira College in New York. During the Civil War era, her father served in the Union Army."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… at first connecting Boston to Kittery and York, then extending to Portland (then called Falmouth)."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… to some of the wealthiest families in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. These families put up summer “cottages,” mansions that rivaled…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… BIW went into receivership and was sold to a New York firm that salvaged much of its machinery. Then, in 1927, BIW was resurrected by William S."