Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"In 1871, James C. Emerson built a small sawmill on the site of where the spool mill was to be. The sawmill engaged in sawing lumber for various…"

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"In 1912, Kelly Thibodeau became the first girl to work in this Lincoln office. Also in 1912 Frank Bixby installed a pole changer, which is electric…"

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

"All the girls were adorned in new Easter hats and pretty dresses that were beautifully puffed out with crinoline petty coats underneath; the boys…"

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943

"Billy Burke's girl." "Jerome at bottom" "Clifford Stevens- left" "Laurence Burke on right" "Stewart Moody at bottom" "The aviator is some Beatham"…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… parochial or private high schools--boys and girls. Many went off to college. The philanthropic spirit in Biddeford was to thank for most of the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"There is a family of Clays in our town and a girl in my class with the last name of Clay. Maybe somewhere down the line this is her relative."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… the curriculum and organized intramural boys’ and girls’ sports teams. Strong's first baseball team won their first nine games without a coach."

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"… was a public building, though, like the Rainbow Girls and some high school civic students who attended town meetings."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"… one play there that—oh, Leora Wyman had, she had girls come here one time and it was, the hall was lovely. It was big, it was beautiful."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"… One family story involves Laura Turner, an island girl who married Dana Burns in 1907. When he died 3 years later, she went to work at the Massey…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Both of the girls were excellent students and continued their education, even after their father died, attending Mt. Holyoke Seminary."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"“The two prettiest girls in Surry—Phebe and Ellen.” Then right beneath it in a different hand: “They are not so.” Phebe’s losses had not yet aged her."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"Wade, ca. 1917 Photograph by Mark Skinner The Little Water Girl, as she is commonly called, was commissioned in honor of Lillian M. N. Stevens."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… harnessed for power to run saw mills, shingle mills, grist mills, or anything else that needed more power than could be supplied by men or animals."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… Julia and Sara, operated a private school for girls in Farmington, known as Wendall Institute, for 13 years until 1881."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… Street turns to the left just past the little girl standing alone on the sidewalk. Straw and Martin Insurance and C.A. Smith Photography, ca."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… was never any solid evidence that he murdered the girl, but he was considered a solid suspect, and was arrested and held for nearly a year until…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… mills and a dam to provide water power for those mills; there were equally as many mills and homes surrounding the dam on both the Farmington Falls…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"He owned various mills, including a cotton mill, and was a shipbuilder. In the early nineteenth century he was a very successful man, yet he only…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… of Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girl. It is now the home base for a local boat yard."