Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Mill pond, Island Falls, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Island Falls Historical Society

Date: circa 1895

Location: Island Falls

Media: Photograph

Title: Walton Mill on Walton Pond, Farmington, circa 1917

Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society

Date: circa 1917

Location: Farmington

Media: Black and White Photograph

Title: Hermon Pond, ca. 1914

Contributed by: Hermon Historical Society

Date: circa 1914

Location: Hermon

Media: print from slide

Surry by the Bay

The Downeast community's history as presented by a broad-based team of representatives from Surry Elementary School and Surry Historical Society. Topics covered include the Surry Opera House and Surry Playhouse, the Surry Village School and education over time in the community, sawmills, and early property owner Phebe Fowler. Students scanned and transcribed a large number of the items digitized for the project.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.