Maine Memory Network

Comfort Manchester Stanley, Trenton, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Trenton Media: Photographic print

Congregational Church and Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor ca. 1910

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

McCann property, Beach Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary E McCann Use: Summer Dwelling

Jackson property, Island Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bertha B. Jackson Use: Summer Dwelling

Fitzgerald house, Brighton, VT, 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Brighton Client: George H. Fitzgerald Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Student Exhibit: Benedict Arnold's March Through Skowhegan

Benedict Arnold arrived in Skowhegan on October 4th, 1775, and it was here that Arnold received his first offer of help from the colonists. Joseph Weston and his sons helped Benedict Arnold and his army cross over the Skowhegan Falls, but Joseph later got a severe cold from exposure and died of a fever on Oct.16th. His sons went back to the family home along the Kennebec for they were the first family to settle in Old Canaan or what is now Skowhegan.

John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman

John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865

"… by any buildings in the State for convenience and comfort as well as elegance in structure outside and the laying out of the grounds." His journal…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Fales Edgarton House

"… in construction dates from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century. It was a comfortable and proven style with which builders were familiar."

What Maine Means to Me
by Nicolette B. Meister

How a friendship created a lifelong love of Maine.

The gift of a necklace
by Parivash Rohani

When I was born my grandmother gave me a part of a Baha’i prayer for protection.