Maine Memory Network

Sanford Beef Company, Main Street, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Ralph Latham and Phil Cressey, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

241-243 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Trustees of the Estate of Frank P. Cummings Use: Wholesale Grocer

228-232 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Estate of Sylvan Shurtleff Use: Storage - Meat

Raising Fish

Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.

Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends

Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"Beef processing costs 55 cents per pound dressed; federal beef processing costs 70 cents per pound dressed. They charge $50 to kill a cow either way."

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"… beans, &c., also 1200 pounds pork and 500 pounds beef. The number of poor maintained at the farm the past year, was 13."

Beef Cutlet always reminds me of home in Iran
by Parivash Rohani

Making beef cutlet in Maine connects me to my home in Iran and my Baha'i faith.

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