Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"Notice the Methodist Church in the background. Bank Square and Elm Street Businesses, Guilford, 1955Guilford Historical Society This is a…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… a town of separate villages, each with its own church and school. Dunstan and Portland were connected by a road inland from the marsh that went up…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Schools, post offices and churches were established in whatever manner possible—run out of private homes before they had buildings of their own."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… Hallowell taking as many pictures as I could of churches, and City Hall, and the Fire Station. I thought those would be fun to look back on."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… who also kept a hotel in Lubec • First Christian Church built in Lubec • Brush weirs for the capture of herring came into wide use in Passamaquoddy…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… the town, helped establish the first post office, church, schoolhouse and meeting hall, later entering local politics."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Unsurprisingly, the town and the church, (which at that time were virtually one unit) answered with a firm "no." For the school, it was the end of…"

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

"We have a Presbyterian Church, a post office, a historical society and Ace Electric Company. The Lion's Hall is still here but not used very much."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… along with a healthy dose of schooling and church attendance. It was around her teenage years when she began her most important life chapter…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… about the establishment of new schools and churches, many of which continue to be active today."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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