Maine Memory Network

Scarborough landowners, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Scarborough Media: Ink on paper

Map of early Greene, Lewiston and Sabattus, ca. 1790

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1790 Location: Sabattus; Greene Media: Ink on vellum

Ray property, Natick Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Clyde Ray Use: Summer Dwelling

77 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Raffaele Frascone Use: Dwelling - Single family

Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

The Shape of Maine

The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… in winter on roads built and maintained by each landowner who built permanent gates across their part of the road to keep farm animals from…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Most women landowners were widows who inherited such property from their late husbands. Gendered divisions of economic activity, moreover, meant that…"

From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm

The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History