Maine Memory Network

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"She had a class of twenty-three students ranging in ages from four to twenty-one, and earned $3.00 for a school year of thirty-three days."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"In the late 19th Century the leisure class made remote, rustic Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada fashionable."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… 125 feet in length, but they will be first class and the best on the road. August 25, 1870: We understand that arrangements are being made by which…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… more leisure time for the middle and upper classes, improved railway and steamship lines made Maine more accessible, and many families sought to…"