Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s children, using sharp knives, removed the heads, tails and entrails from the fish."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Thomas Dexter was the first keeper 1810 • Committee chosen by people of Seward’s Neck to petition the legislature in Boston to be set off from Moose…"

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

"The man and his dog, sometimes even his child if he had a son, would go out hunting. Whatever they would catch, the woman would skin clean and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"She lived to the age of 71. In 1849, they had their last child, Jere, who made the total number of kids 12."

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Francis Stanislaus was the only child out of eight Stephen and Sylvia had that lived to adulthood. The rest of them probably died through…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"“Good gracious, child! He’s an old man compared to you!” she chuckled. I told her that I would then marry someone like him, someone kind…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"One group had the slogan, “A seat for every child.” Five teachers spent about two-week’s pay to purchase their own desks to assist in furnishing…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… often states Conrad Heyer was the first white child born in the German immigrant community of Waldoboro."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"… of an old deacon or the artless innocence of a child. They convey an artistry of another period and provide considerable historical clues."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… Lambert, who had attended the Strong School as a child when it was still new and housed grades K-12, spoke to the gathering, recalling how the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… backward, O Time, in your flight, And make me a child again, just for tonight!”, became very popular here in America."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"… chosen as one of three in Maine named a 2005 No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon School, and one of 295 nationwide that was awarded the honor."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 362-451

"… the house, his gardens, the birth of their first child, Ada, and their move to a portion of Clara's mother's house."

Historic Hallowell - The Hallowell Union Fire Club

"Benjamin and Abigail Page had one child named John Odlin Page. At the age of seventy-eight, Benjamin Page died in Hallowell on October 28, 1824."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… father tearfully told his daughter, “The child will die before you get there. Carry a spade to dig a grave for the poor thing.” This counsel was to…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… in a court decision to liberate or discharge the child. An apprentice or servant discharged due to ill treatment, or whose master died, could be…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… playing with native island kids: "When I was a child… we did have cars but if you went across the island to go to a store or something it was like…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… went down to his house where with my wife and child and I took supper After supper I took the boy in my arms and started for the pinnacle."

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

"Robert Herring Jr. gave birth to the first child born in the settlement, a baby girl which she names Esther. Then in December Mrs. Robert Low Jr."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Timothy F. Belcher was born in Farmington, 6th child of Clifford and Deborah A Fuller Belcher. He was born into a prominent family, his grandfather…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"She was the first child of this new family to Charles Morris Blake and Charlotte Farmington Blake. After her birth there were three more children."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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