Maine Memory Network

William Arnold House, Bangor, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1870 Location: Bangor Media: Stereograph

Granite Street west from Main Street, Rockland, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph

Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter

Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.

One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC

In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library, 1924

"… built in 1924, at its current location on West Broadway. The $7,000 fund to begin building the library came through donation from Mary B."

Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"… right, the railroad tracks can be seen on West Broadway. Left of the tracks, the white house with the big set of barns is what is now the Lincoln…"

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars