Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Biddeford's Movers & Shakers

"Though the people may be lost to time, their names live on in fable if not fact. You often hear these names in family stories or local lore, and it…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"All of these tribal names are found in the early literature of the area, as well as the southern New England tribes' names for the Wabanakis --…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"… has produced real originals, individuals whose impact has reached far beyond the banks of the Saco River. Click on a name at right to read more!"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"… lend their visions, enthusiasm, and indeed their names to the progressing area. Veterans Captain Seth Spring and Captain Moses Bradbury built homes…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… homeopathic hospital opened in Maine, and was named for Dr. J. Frank Trull, its founder. The Webber Hospital was opened as an alternative to the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"The entirety of Main Street has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, as well as the Mill district."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"… and continues to build weapons under the name General Dynamics. Pepperell's saving grace was the invention and production of the Vellux blanket by…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"The use of these names continued for the next hundred years or so. Vines took possession of the tract June 5, 1630 in a ceremony witnessed by six…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… and Winter Harbor became a separate town with the name of Biddeford, after the town in Devon, England."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited

"Works Cited Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. Indian Place Names of the Penobacot Valley and the Maine Coast. Orono: The University Press, 1941."

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"Another belief is that Sheppard's Point at the end of the stream is shaped like India, and, for that reason, early English settlers named it after…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"A series of conflicts, known as the French and Indian Wars, persisted from 1745-1763. Locally, the Indians continued attacks on Fort George and the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… business,” Abraham Somes met the island’s “Indian Governor” near Southwest Harbor, “bought” land from him for a gallon of rum, and documented the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 2 of 3

"The Presque Isle boys were named the Indians, but Dorothy cheered for the boys from Robinson. She liked the boys from there."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 6, pages 97-113

"Godfrey Hannibal Hamlin Indian Regatta Stephen Stanislaus Sebattis Saul Sebattis Solomon J. M. Sockalexis John Fransoway Mitchel Peol Susup Sappiel…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"3- 26 2. “‘A Scratch with a Bear's Paw’: Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-256) 3. Richardson, H."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… parade and observances in Bangor, ten Penobscot Indians in five birchbark canoes engaged in a race on the Kenduskeag Stream."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3

"… Jonathan Buck in 1779 that dogs owned by the indians were "running his sheep into the ocean." He said he lived alone on the island, but evidently…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… Bar Harbor in the heyday of hotels, cottages and Indian encampments, 1886 Bird's-eye view maps like this 1886 panorama of Bar Harbor were popular…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… was a performer, producer, and promoter of “Indian entertainments,” and his name appeared in dozens of newspapers across New England, especially…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… to the writing of Anna Virgin Farrington, Indians from the Pennacook tribe had a camp on the mountain in back of what is known as the Ira Wing…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"After Captain Smith reported his discoveries, Prince Charles replaced the local names supplied by Smith, changing North Virginia to New England and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… of unexpected yet related documents, such as “Indian captivity” depositions; documents pertaining to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower…"

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"By the mid-1800s, the Penobscot Indians had been practicing Catholicism for years, after being converted by European settlers."