Maine Memory Network

Ferdinand Gorges' land deed to Thomas Cammock, 1634

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1634-05-01 Media: Ink on paper

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Early map of Lewiston, Auburn and Minot, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Location: Auburn; Lewiston; Minot Media: Ink on paper

Assessor's Record, 9-11 Portland Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Percival Baxter Agent Use: Land

Assessor's Record, 184 Middle Street (rear), Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: C.T. Whipple, Agent Use: Land only

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.

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… loyalist of New York and Nova Scotia, and British agent Ward Chipman (1754-1824), loyalist of Massachusetts and New Brunswick."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Effective agents needed a familiarity with the law, as the proprietors frequently resorted to filing suits of ejectment or trespass against residents."

Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.

Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide

August 12, 1967 was the most significant day of my life
by Bob Small

How the Vietnam war affected my life