Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"Some farmers hung on and there were at least five commercial dairies in town before the Second World War."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"It was one of 2 major commercial quarries on the island; the Toothacher Cove Quarry being the other one."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"The block consisted of five bays of commercial space, each with two windows over the storefront below."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"In 2013 the building still stands as a ghost to its former glory, unused, and falling into disrepair."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… – once thriving island villages that have no commercial businesses at all? Perhaps we should accept that the automobile and online commerce have…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"… dumped their rubbish and night soil off of the Commercial Street docks into the Fore River. In 1878, Portland passed an ordinance prohibiting…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… while not losing sight of furthering the commercial attractiveness of Asticou, Charles came into his own during the 1950s with many like-minded…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"The number of commercial licenses is limited and they are difficult to get. More licenses are available for recreational clammers who want to dig…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… a developer who had planned to put in a number of commercial entities, which he never did. But he leveled Little Blue, and filled in Rollo Pond."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Yet, for reasons both commercial and social, since the earliest times, people in this region have regularly made such journeys, and evidence of this…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… streets of Lubec This arch near the corner of Commercial and Pleasant Streets welcomed visitors who arrived via the ferry wharf at the camera’s…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Once this building was occupied, elementary students were moved into the old High School building on Middle Street and the May School building, which…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Prescott Ford, A Sketch of the Discovery of a Commercially Profitable Process for the Extraction of Gold and Silver from Sea Water, Robinson Press…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… in the early 1800s by Beza Blanchard, began commercial operations under Frank Blanchard after his service in the Civil War, and still sells milk…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Here, a busy commercial and residential area developed in the 1790s and beyond. There is a distinctive triangular “heater” intersection where Route 9…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… there were were additional large canneries on Commercial Street. American Can with its factory on that newer waterfront street had brought change…"

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