Maine Memory Network

Robert Borland 'Bohemian' deposition, Portland, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Cape Elizabeth; Liverpool; Londonderry; Perth Media: Ink on paper

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'Bohemian' wreck deposition of pilot, Portland, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Cape Elizabeth; Liverpool; Londonderry; Perth Media: Ink on paper

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Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec

The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons: Staging the Past

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) of Kingfield, Maine, experimented with the burgeoning artform of photography. Starting in 1897, Emmons documented the lives of people, many in rural and agricultural regions in Maine and around the world. Often described as recalling a bygone era, this exhibition features glass plate negatives and painted lantern slides from the collections of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield on deposit at Maine Historical Society, that present a time of rapid change, from 1897 to 1926.

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

"It includes land deeds, depositions, maps, correspondence, broadsides, proprietor’s meetings records, accounts, land agents, and other documents…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Sources

"Originals on deposit at the New York Historical Society, part of the Gilder-Lehrman Collection. Microfilm available at Montpelier."

A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner

With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima