Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

""Lincoln's First Militia, The Original Orderly Book." Mattanawcook Observer. 2.2. (1984): 107. Print. Mills, Gertrude."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1908. King Burial GroundScarborough Historical Society & Museum Cyrus King Born in Scarborough 16 September 1772…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… in the community for the local elite and could be booked for a “reasonable fee” by those who wished to use it."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"In the book by Roland E. Foss, “The History of the New Portlands in Maine”, it states that “West New Portland has a landmark that should not be…"

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

"Small’s book: “The amount of moral courage and Christian fortitude required for a landsman to get up out of a comfortable bed and struggle up on a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… produced coated papers for periodicals, catalogs, books, and commercial printing. Mead was also a major producer of paper products for schools and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… late 1950s and a small library of rare botanical books for Thuya Lodge. John D. Rockefeller Jr. letter to Charles K."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"The downstairs has the artifacts, books, and newsletters. The newsletters have been written by the people who run the society."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… the most basic resources, slate, chalk, and a few books. With these resources she would teach literacy, penmanship, arithmetic, and “good manners”…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"This made the history books because this was the first time that an accused murderer testified in his own defense, speaking on his own behalf."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… led it to depend on donations to balance the books. In 1965, the hospital’s total operating expenses of $2.6 million outstripped collectable income…"

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

"… others make wedding cakes, take pictures, write books, and create works of art. Recently, the town has seen another decrease in population."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"In the early 1800's, Pond published a book against slavery. Another was Reverend Amory Battles. Battles was an abolitionist at the Unitarian Church…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"More recently, numerous books, written by Ben and Natalie Butler recorded history of area neighborhoods."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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

"… written by both Ben and Natalie Butler in their book, The Falls: Where Farmington, Maine, began in 1776 and in Thomas Parker’s, History of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"According to Peter Dow Bachelder in his book Ships and Maritime Disasters of the Maine Coast, the ship was the largest wooden sailing ship ever…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… rights of newspapers, tourist guides and souvenir books of travel over 5,000 miles of rail and steamship lines."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Print. Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field Book. New York: Harper Brothers, 1896. Print. Scott, Geraldin Tidd."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The history books say the cold weather was most likely caused by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia during April of 1815."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"In our collection, we have a “Day Book” or ledger dating back to 1797. This ledger appears to track his business – some sort of store."

Acadian Archives

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