Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"The Customs House Text by Kimberly Mathews, Charles Mills, Courtney Mitchell, and Ashley Rusaw 7th grade students at Bath Middle School Images from…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block Text by Alex Anderson, Justin Collander, Dylan Crowell, Matt Nelson, and Lauren Quimby 7th grade students at…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"94 Front Street By Kyle Hietala The Building Front Street, in Bath, Maine has been one of the most densely packed business areas throughout the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"He owned and operated Franklin Telephone & Telegraph, which he expanded east toward New Sharon and north to the Phillips area."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"… consumed the original Watts Block, along with the Telegraph Block - a wooden commercial block next to it, a stable and the Knox Hotel to its west."

Oakfield Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… & Hall Thomas Greenhalgh Carltons Corner Steamer Telegraph Charles Starbird Caroline Starbird Cate Sewall Steammill Frankfort Hotel Horsemanship…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… in and out of town, and the station doubled as a telegraph station.   George King Interview on Railroads The train was used to transport…"

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"… bills without the mail? Before the 1850s when the telegraph came to Lincoln, they would have had to walk to the place they wanted to go and do…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"A year later it had telegraph service. There were now 11 hotels, mostly along Main Street. And Rodick, despite ridicule for his optimism, expanded…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"It contains two or three churches, a post office, telegraph office, about a dozen stores and the usual number of lawyers and doctors, one public…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… “Electric Lights, Long Distance Telephone, Telegraphic Office, Saddle Horses, [and] Excellent Livery” (Wood 73)."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Gardner Lake, 1936 1897 - 1898 • Telegraph service established • Resort hotel Ne-Mat-Ta-No built in North Lubec by Portland YMCA • “Klondike” –…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"While the local telegraph operator frantically sent SOS messages to surrounding towns, local firefighters tried unsuccessfully to battle the inferno."

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

"… the New Portland and Eustis Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1929. This business organized in 1889 and had a switchboard at Clark’s store in the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… stores, blacksmith shops, schools, post office, telegraph lines and a telephone service. Residents found they could be entertained at opera houses…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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