Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - History Detectives

"The club met after school to solve 'mysteries' with island artifacts, play games, work on exhibits, act out historical scenes, and learn from local…"

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… portrayed their subjects with a touch of humor, mystery, or charm. Four tintypes in the Maine Historical Society Collection depict pairs of women…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Oak Hotel

"The burning of the Oak Hotel is still a mystery. Eleven years later, in 1986, the Aroostook County Federal Savings and Loan Association purchased…"

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"… Imagine one day at sundown, you walk by a mysterious building. You look, then out of nowhere two bulky men dart out in front of you and invite you…"

Museum at Portland Head

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Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… unfortunately unnamed physician was remains a mystery, but the fact that she was identified as a doctor rather than a midwife or caregiver has to…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"Choate, of the quarry road said that he saw a mysterious dark cloud but failed to report anything about it."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Timeline of Events

"… encourage student dialogue and exploration using "mystery" artifacts from Scarborough's MMN collection April 2010 Students participate in…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"Equally shrouded in mystery is the daguerreotype of five girls, including one with a cleft lip. What brought them together in a photographer’s studio…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… and employed in any lawful art, trade or mystery, or as servants to be employed in any lawful work or labour..." Male children could be bound out…"

First Parish in Portland

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"The mysterious shipwreck of The Don, off the coast of Harpswell, on June 29, 1941, took the lives of 34 men and women from the…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… 1911 Lubec Historical Society A Centennial Mystery The German namesake city sent more than a congratulatory telegram in 1911, for the Lubec Herald…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"A lot of mystery surrounds the origins of this building. The best prediction is that a good portion of the music hall was built prior to 1830, as…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"was a mystery to people in town. No one was really sure who were the owners of this plant built in 1901, according to Gilman."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… 4, 1870: The new depot grounds were visited in a mysterious manner last Thursday night and our readers will remember was very dark."