Maine Memory Network

Governor Brewster, Commander MacMillan, Wiscasset, June 19, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Photographers aboard the Bowdoin, Wiscasset, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

A sun deck addition for L. A. Thibodeau, 1980

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980 Location: Presque Isle Client: L. A. Thibodeau Architect: John Calvin Stevens, II

von Mayrhauser residence roof plan, New York, NY, 2015

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2015 Location: New York Client: Peter von Mayrhauser Architect: Carol A. Wilson

Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.

The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin

Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 2 of 3

"… the water reflecting the calm before tide reversal. The left photo near high tide reveals the water just below the bottom of the trestle's deck."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"The other decks were used for storage or sleeping quarters. The massive decks would most likely collapse without multiple knees."

My WWII Navy Adventure starts at age 13
by I. Robert Miller

My love for the Navy, on 10 ships & many battles, on the cover of Naval aviation News magazine

Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall

As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.