Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Railroad Company operated twelve miles of track between Bangor and Old Town beginning in 1836."

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

"They were operated by Jeremiah and Jane Drinkwater Buxton and family after 1796 and catered to stagecoach passengers, drovers, and peddlers."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Today, the mills no longer operate on the island leaving only the Weston hydroelectric station formerly owned by Central Maine Power."

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

"Organizations such as the Lions Club, which still operates, worked to raise money to help people in need, not to forget their importance in running…"

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

"… last of it being used as a hotel, the brothers operated a grocery store in one end of the hotel, Thomas Teague was proprietor until it burned."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… pictures indicate that the Model School was in operation many years before that date. The Training School Mallett Training School This…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… some kind of manufacturing will be in successful operation here in less than two years from the day the first train of cars arrived at the terminus…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Summer Street since 1944, departed to consolidate operations in Portland. In the heart of downtown, McFadden’s Drugstore ended its 55-year stay on…"