Maine Memory Network

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

"… the New Gloucester Road at Walnut Hill to the lower bridge on the Presumpscot River in Falmouth; this was the beginning of planning for present day…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… Society Here’s a view looking southwest on Water Street at its junction with School Street. The towered corner building housed the Post Office in…"

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

"… realignment altered routing and residences on Lower Water and Pleasant Streets. Note the photograph to the right showing the near-complete bridge…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"Due to the lower price of goods on the mainland, this new accessibility led to a decline in island stores."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"The people that lived by the water were lower class. The captains of the ships were middle class, and they lived higher on the hill."

Historic Hallowell - Joppa

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner South on Water Street between the business section and Loudon Hill is a part of the city known as Joppy or Joppa."

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

"Chapman and Flint laid out a new yard on the Narrows (a narrowing of the river northwest of the Wadsworth Street bridge) near John Paine’s original…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2

"… flood of 1987, they had to put new windows in the lower floors. Guilford Woolen Mill Finishing Room Crew, ca, 1890Guilford Historical Society…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"The flames took the buildings on lower Broadway then headed south on the west side on Main Street. All the buildings burned on the west side except…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"With increased shipbuilding along Water Street, this location was found to be more convenient for trading, and new business blocks were built to…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Hardly a whole window casement in either mill was left. The big boilers in both mills were under water."

Caribou Public Library

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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