Maine Memory Network

Surveyor's compass, Fort Kent, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Fort Kent Media: Metal, glass

Survey tripod, York, ca. 1750

Contributed by: Old York Historical Society Date: circa 1750 Location: York; York Media: Walnut, iron

469 Allen Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Helen Elizabeth Needham Style: Bungalow Use: Dwelling - Single family

125-127 Bancroft Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Knapp Price Style: National Folk Use: Bungalow

White-Levy residence surveys, grading, and driveway, Lewisboro, NY, 1975-1996

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1975–1996 Location: Lewisboro Client: Leon Levy Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Malone residence, borders planting plan for the "Yellow House," Northeast Harbor, 2013

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2013 Location: Mount Desert Client: Frederick R. Malone Architect: Patrick Chasse

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.

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

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

"… Martha Ballard was an essential complement to the surveys and land sales documented in company records."

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

"John River Boundary survey, 1843-1844Maine Historical Society How the long-fixed line of 1842 was created can be examined in extraordinary detail…"

Importance of Insects in Maine
by Charlene Donahue

Doing Insect surveys with the Maine Entomological Society

Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw

Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass