Maine Memory Network

Chase Grocery Store, Bath, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print

Michaud Grocery store, Caribou, ca. 1922

Contributed by: Nylander Museum Date: circa 1922 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

113-15 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Nathaniel W Shaw Use: Store & Storage

306 Brackett Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: James E Jay Use: Store

A Tour of Sanford in 1900

This collection of images portrays many buildings in Sanford and Springvale. The images were taken around the turn of the twentieth century.

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Eddie's Market

The store was sixteen feet by twenty-four feet and had two fulltime employees. The store was remodeled five times, the last time in 1954.

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Watts Block

… deteriorated building that once housed Flint’s grocery store on the southwest corner of Knox and Main Streets, and moved it to another location.

Norman Sevigny: history of a neighborhood grocery store
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

Growing up in a Franco-American community and working in the family business, Sevigny’s Market

Sarah Jane Poli: Biddeford’s first female school superintendent
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

An Italian immigrant's daughter is key to a family grocery store and a leader in the school system