Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"The Civil War started people thinking about civil rights, like rights for women and people of other races."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"The Civil War & Biddeford X Confederate money, 1862Biddeford Historical Society "It is with feelings of patriotic pride that I refer to…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"Three Civil War Letters By the date of his third letter, the Regiment had participated at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Chantilly and…"

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

"Since the Civil War, many towns throughout New England had erected monuments such as the Merrill memorial in Cumberland, to those who had served in…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor, 1866

"… secure in future our civil, moral, and religious rights." Hamlin was a lawyer in Hampden before the Civil War."

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"Jonathan Clay, Jr. Killed in the Civil War at Petersubrg, VA. He was buried in a mass grave. X Brent Davis "Compare and contrast your topic in…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… Cemetery, Ellsworth 1890 Maine Census Index of Civil War Veterans African-American Civil War Monument, Washington, D.C."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"… 48 while he was in the military serving in the Civil War. He is the father of Thomas G. Libby. Thomas S."

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"… outside of the Lincoln House Hotel about the Civil War. The hotel is not here today, but a new Lincoln House Motel is here."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 2 of 3

"… 7th and 8th graders have researched Strong's post-Civil War life and the story of Fly Rod Crosby, Maine's first registered Maine Guide."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Proprietors had a right to take out one bound volume for two months at a time. The fine for an overdue book stood at one cent per day, and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature for the right to form their own parish, separate from The Church Under the Ledge, and this became the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"This group had meetings for the members and picnics that included their families. The meetings were sometimes about voting rights for black veterans."

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943

"… "Clifford Stevens- left" "Laurence Burke on right" "Stewart Moody at bottom" "The aviator is some Beatham" "Archer boy & (illegible) at right of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Eastern Manufacturing Company, Lincoln, ca. 1920 - Page 1 of 2

"In the bottom right of the photograph is a conveyor belt that put wood in a box car and shipped it to Brewer."

Lincoln, Maine - Pulp Mill, Penobscot River, 1902 - Page 1 of 2

"The trestle at right is still used by the railway today. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Lincoln, Maine - Lower Main Street looking north, Lincoln, ca. 1948

"On the right is Milt Knight's Variety Store. The small building is the Shanty Restaurant with Sadie's Lunch next to it."

Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1925

"The presence of the Lincoln Theatre (at right), built in 1923 to replace the Odd Fellows Hall after it burned in 1922, suggests that this photo was…"

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

"The large white building on the right is the Plumly Building, home of the Post Office in Lincoln. The home in the center belonged to Ira Fish."

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"He is seeing what I am doing right now in the class. He probably is happy that I’m talking about him in this project that I’m doing."

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"The beautiful building on the right was the Litton House. The next building is Gateway Motors which is now Cole Whitney."

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

"On the extreme right, the railroad tracks can be seen on West Broadway. Left of the tracks, the white house with the big set of barns is what is now…"

Lincoln, Maine - Roger Weatherbee of Lincoln in his P-51 H fighter plane, 1946

"… at the Ballard Hill School being able to look right into his cockpit, he then turned the plane upside down and flew straight down Main St."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Atkins House, Jefferson Street, Bangor, 1851

"… the property after someone built on the next lot, right against his house. Martin noted in the journal that the house is at it appeared on…"