Maine Memory Network

Trenton Union Church, ca. 1944

Contributed by: Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Date: circa 1944 Location: Trenton Media: Photographic print

Union Church, Biddeford Pool, 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

New Union Church, Vinalhaven, 1899

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1899 Location: Vinalhaven Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

For the Union: Civil War Deaths

More than 9,000 Maine soldiers and sailors died during the Civil War while serving with Union forces. This exhibit tells the stories of a few of those men.

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"Ransom E. Gilkey providing “rare qualities of patience, tact, vision, and judgment that cemented the union and started it on a firm basis.” In 1917…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded in Cleveland in December of 1874. Sons of Temperance certificate for John Gunnelsen…"

Jim Murphy-living a multi-dimensional life
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project

Life influences: Irish/Quebec ancestry, seminary, Navy, community businesses and organizations.

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.