Maine Memory Network

John Ingersoll deed to Peleg Wadsworth, Portland, 1784

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1874 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Burwash development brochure, Wesley, ca. 1927

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1927 Location: Wesley Media: Brochure printed on coated stock and folded

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Sale property, S.E. Side City Vew Avenue, Little Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Thomas D. Sale Use: Summer Dwelling

183-189 Washington Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Deering Realty Company Use: Garage

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… an essential complement to the surveys and land sales documented in company records. Women’s economic activities, in short, undergirded both…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Reed Hardings neighborhood, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… neighborhood, detailing inhabitants of all the properties, as it was between 1833 and 1835 and included it as page 63 of his journal."

Harold's Garage, Rome Hollow, Maine
by Mimi C

Story about Harold Hawes, owner of Harold's garage and self-styled auctioneer in Rome Hollow, Maine