Maine Memory Network

Survey of Land, Leeds, 1834

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1834-10-02 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

Plan of the Bracket Lots, Androscoggin County, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Durham Media: Ink on paper

Cold Storage, Union Wharf (leased land), Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Canal National Bank Use: Cold Storage

422-426 Commercial Street (leased land), Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elias Hersey Roofing Company Use: Storage for Roof material

House for Mountain Park Land Co., Lewiston, 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1895 Location: Lewiston Client: Mountain Park Land Company Architect: George M. Coombs

Plan of Seboomook Farm, Seboomook, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Seboomook Client: Great Northern Paper Company Architect: Great Northern Paper Company

Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Land Claims, Economic Opportunities?

The landmark 1980 Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act provided $81.6 million to Maine Indians for economic development, land purchase and other purposes. The money and increased land holdings, however, have not solved economic and employment issues for Maine Indians.

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian…"

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

My Paper Industry career and setting up a museum
by Sherry Judd

I worked in and around the Paper Industry all my life. Now I run Maine's Paper and Heritage Museum.