Maine Memory Network

Franco-American Collection

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Maine Irish Heritage Center

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Lee, Maureen Elgersman, Blck Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950, 2005, University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H."

New Sweden Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… and represent a complete embracing of local/American building technology – no traditional Swedish board and batten, clay tile roofs, or hinged…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"We did similar things to the Native Americans here. And, frankly, ten years after Malaga Island was destroyed, the largest Ku Klux Klan rally in the…"

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"This green space became known as Meeting House Park. (And now you know that Church Street is named for John Church and not the North Church at the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 14 of 17

"… that 873 people were assisted either on or off the farm, and a second house had to be procured to house all the destitute people in the city."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 17 of 17

"… “It is true that there is a skeleton in every house, it may also be true that there is one in every heart; and God help and tenderly pity them who…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… assisted either on or off the farm, and a second house had to be procured to house all the destitute people in the city."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… available to them at the City Opera House and other halls and venues downtown. Concerts, minstrel and vaudeville shows, oratories, chorales and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"Huge ice-storage houses were built along the river, and the harvest was stored packed in hay as well as sawdust, which would have been available in…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy

"Most of the surviving information comes from the District of Saco custom house. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE..."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"Red Row Houses, Stockholm, ca. 1925Stockholm Historical Society On Red Row there were 16 duplex houses built by the Stockholm Lumber Company around…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… During the fight warriors burned two mills and a house in the area to try and lure out the settlers, to no avail."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… included the Capitol, one church, five school houses, three mills, 163 houses, and 151 barns. The Colony Expands Into Neighboring Townships The…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Project Partners

"… organized in 1925 and maintains the collections housed in the Capitolium, Lindsten Stuga, and Laden, as well as the monuments and old cemetery…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"When W.W. Thomas and the first group of Swedes arrived on July 23, 1870, however, Burleigh's work was not yet finished - only six of the 25 log…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"The company also built a large boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row Street for their workers' families, a stable and two barns."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"They were married at their own house where my grandmother still lives. My great grandmother Annie died December 13, 1983 at the age of 94."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"… locations for the construction of pleasant summer houses.” Front page, Bath Independent and Enterprise, 1903."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"The mail had to be delivered to around 120 houses all around Stockholm from New Sweden. The Anderson Brothers Store is now the Stockholm Museum."