Maine Memory Network

Dinning Hall at Ricker Classical Institute, Houlton, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1935 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

RCI students and Wording Hall fire, Houlton, 1944

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1944-03-23 Location: Houlton Media: 8 mm film

Boyd house, Augusta, 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903 Location: Augusta Client: Byron Boyd Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Shepard Cary: Lumberman, Legislator, Leader and Legend

Shepard Cary (1805-1866) was one of the leading -- and wealthiest -- residents of early Aroostook County. He was a lumberman, merchant, mill operator, and legislator.

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… for work: once to go to Grand Lake Stream or Houlton and work at F. Shaw Brothers Tannery. His dates of working there are unknown, but at some…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Baxter State Park and Burton W. Howe
by Jason Howe

Formation of Baxter State Park and the involvement of Burton W. Howe of Patten