Maine Memory Network

School children, Lubec, ca. 1934

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1934 Location: Lubec Media: Photograph on card mount

North Lubec Houses, Lubec, 1975

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Kodachrome slide

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Monuments to Civil War Soldiers

Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 70,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Lubec, North Lubec and Moose Island were incorporated as the town of Eastport (Plantation 8) in 1798 with 588 inhabitants."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… on South Bay in North Lubec and in West Lubec 1861 • 200 Lubec men, 18 to 40, entered the Union Army, one for every 12 inhabitants 1862 • On…"