Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… the next big stretch of water, from Norridgewock Falls to Caratunk Falls, was very peaceful and full of food, the best stretch of water on the…"

Lisbon Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"… bad but the wind is always the worst umbrellas fall Fixing the city Bring in a supply everyone helps clean up rebuild repair soon Cyclones, Storms…"

Historic Hallowell - Central Maine Power

"… set out to battle the freezing temperatures and falling ice in an attempt to restore power to the people of Maine."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"The earliest logs were cut from around the falls. By the end of the 18th century the logs were being sent down from Fryeburg and points north."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Kids at the quarry

"… 3-5 grade class visited Baird's Quarry in the fall of 2011 as part of the Swan's Island studies unit."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"The Rumford Falls Realty (an outgrowth of the Rumford Falls Power Company) was established to develop these residences."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… for the purposes of fishing salmon at the “Great Falls.” There is little evidence that there was any permanent settlement in this area, but rather…"

Maine's Paper & Heritage Museum

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

"… negotiate the purchase of lands surrounding the falls, upriver lands and the valley lands below the falls, totaling some 1400 acres, in a manner…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"In the spring of 1900, the new Bag Factory at Rumford Falls was started; in December of 1900, the bag machines from the New York plant were shipped…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 15 of 17

"… Tuesday, and 100 guns were fired in honor of the fall of Richmond. In Saco in the evening the Town Hall was thrown open, which was packed by a…"

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"The shift from the Pool to Falls Village began in earnest. More entrepreneurs came to town, to lend their visions, enthusiasm, and indeed their names…"

Old Berwick Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… as Quabecook (Merrymeeting Bay), and the names of falls on the Androscoggin, including Amitgonpontekok (Twenty Miles Falls), which divided…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… Rumford Falls Times, August, 4, 1923 Rumford Falls Times, July 20, 1988 Poem by John McInnis Rumford Falls Times, November 29, 1929 Lewiston Sun…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"“The orchards had 1,000 or more trees and each fall Lowell bought up Spies and Baldwins (apples) from others and shipped them by the carload to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… the northern bank to what we now call Farmington Falls. The exploring party continued traveling north about a mile further up the river."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"High School Portland and Rumford Falls Sunday Paper Train August 1898, BuckfieldGreater Rumford Area Historical Society Buckfield was first…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… Kennebec River Hubbard Free Library Late in the fall of 1625 a small boat with seven men aboard slowly made its way up the Kennebec River."

Historic Hallowell - Day 3 - Page 1 of 2

"… down and even an hour later the same line could fall down again. Also carbon monoxide poisoning kills Martin McClusky in his home in Waterville."

Lubec, Maine - Team Members

"Box 422 Lubec, ME 04652-0422 (207) 733-2997 Fall/Winter/Spring (207) 733-2197 Summer http://www.mccurdyssmokehouse.org Lubec Memorial Library 55…"