Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"The tide gradually eroded the land underneath the building, and the town voted to sell the building in 2006."

Acadia National Park

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Bethany Baptist Church

"They voted to buy the church building and the land next door from Ronald Wight. After the building was purchased, the congregation redid the basement…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Riverside Park and Arboretum

"Years later, the skating rink moved onto land now part of Riverside Park and served by a warming hut that is now the support building."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Thomaston Academy

"Dean on land donated by Benjamin and Judith Bussey in 1826, contained 78 pews valued at $4066. In 1847 the Thomaston Academy building was built to…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… the loyalty of immigrants to their adopted land. The 1924 National Origins Act, which restricted European immigration and prohibited Asian…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… and under good pilotage along the rocky shore, landing for our geological discoveries even as old Champlain may have landed for his geography, and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"The land was the site of the home of Benjamin Sweetser prior to its destruction in a 1906 fire. Prince Memorial Library, Cumberland, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… of money set aside from the sale or use of Indian lands. N.M. Francis and his wife in a canoe, ca."

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

"… the gravel pit and spreading it upon the waste land near by, and such other work as we could procure for them." There is little doubt that to these…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"The use of these names continued for the next hundred years or so. Vines took possession of the tract June 5, 1630 in a ceremony witnessed by six…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"The team worked hard -- two choppers could cut 6-7,000 feet of logs a day. The choppers used crosscut saws and backsaws."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"… built a ship with Maxcy and Mathews on his land north of the Narrows. Shipbuilding made for prosperous times in the town."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… started spending less time at sea and more on land – expanding their own properties, as well as buying, developing, and selling land to summer…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"For the English sought to obtain ownership of lands and were not highly concerned with the methods used in achieving this."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding

"… under the County Road (now Route One.) A town landing was established on Mill Creek in the vicinity of the Gleason and Fish Street intersection."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"… Society Before the Wharff house was built the land was all wooded area that the town had decided to change to farmland in order to build a house…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming

"… and other island citizens continued to use the land to grow vegetables and fruits, and raise livestock."

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… could attempt to clear and till five acres of land in three years, one of the conditions of sale imposed by the Kennebec Proprietors."

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 1 of 3

"Stripping of the land to be used as the “basin” for the reservoir was begun June 1, 1913. The contract for completing the task of “removing trees…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"In turn, the settlers had to agree to stay seven years. Initially these settlers came to cut timber for boat building and to cultivate the land for…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"Also, a used boxcar was once used as a jail when the police were in dire need. The railroad was important to Lincoln's history because it connected…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The Abenakis believed that the lands were there to share, and to hunt on, as needed to live but the English wanted to own it and keep anyone off that…"