Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950

"Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The Lincoln Center school was built in 1926 to…"

Lincoln, Maine - South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The first school house in South Lincoln…"

Lincoln, Maine - View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is a beautiful…"

Lincoln, Maine - High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903

"High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is the High Street Bridge built in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description A view of the town of Lincoln taken from…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… 1860s, President Abraham Lincoln selected thirty war consuls whose job it was to promote the idea of immigration to America under the Homestead Act."

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Presque Isle Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"Jerome Aroostook War Cobb Dancing School Ezekiel Hopkins Hopkins house illustration John Shey Farming Locofoco System of Free Trade Tyler Wasgatt…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… Every Mile, inspired by driving Route 2A in Aroostook County on the famed Haynesville Road, which he memorialized in the song."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"With the exception of Aroostook County, Maine’s remaining farmers survived by practicing a subsistence strategy that included diverse crop and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… 1837-38 and conflict over access to timber in the Aroostook “War” of 1838-39, encouraged the new Whig and Tory governments of the US and Britain to…"

Music in Maine - HEAR

"… Museum Victor Victrola, 1914Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Thomas Edison created the first phonograph in 1877."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 1 of 3

"… Company Guilford Bed and Breakfast Bangor and Aroostook Railroad DAVIS BROTHERS FURNITURE Text by: Morgan King and Brittany Cookson Eighth Grade…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"Bangor and Aroostook Railroad • Text By: Spencer Martell and Paul Martin • Eight Grade Students at Piscataquis Community Middle School • Images from…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad tracks are on the left. The first (closest) building on the right is M. Holbrook's Pool Hall and Bowling Alley."

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"Tarbell By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Born on an Aroostook County potato farm in Merrill in 1914, Eaton Weatherbee Tarbell (1914-1992) graduated…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The so called Aroostook War was avoided, however, when Gen. Winfield Scott, President Van Buren's emissary, convinced Governor Fairfield to resolve…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"In the 1900’s, Aroostook would take the lead in Maine’s potato production. E.S. Dingley Corn Huskers The corn season lasted only three weeks."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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