Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… and Sam's Club came to town; Maine Medical Center broke ground for a complex of medical offices and lab, and the town built new support services…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… beyond Babcocks barn when his steers swung and broke my sled tongue. Babcock let me have his sled and helped me reload and haul my load up the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"This fire broke out on one of the coldest nights of the coldest winters, in the boot and shoe store of Samuel Foote on Front Street, north of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"I remembered I broke out all kinds of windows in a building and my father made me go and redo all of them so I learned to cut glass."

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

"The fluke of the anchor broke and the Cappy began to blow ashore. It came across the ledges and washed upon a small beach in the Graveyard area, the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Troubled peace broke into open hostility again in 1690 when the French in eastern Maine joined forces with the Indians and destroyed the settlement…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… the door with an oath ....I think her back was broke, and last night she died." Metta Victoria Fuller, 1853 X Rum, Fire Water published…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… which was not nearly enough and the line broke again with an explosion. Fire at Centre and Front streets, Bath, 1894Patten Free Library As…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"In either time, if someone broke their leg, they would be better off getting it checked out by a doctor."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Shortly afterward a fire broke out, apparently something near the flax causing the fire, and they lost everything except a small boat in the river."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Library When war between the South and the North broke out in April 1861, Bangor eagerly answered President Lincoln's call for troops."

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

"This band broke up in 1900, and there were no more organized bands until the late 1940s. Music was taught in the High School by then and a school…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"In 1957, Eastern broke ground on a new $11 million dollar bleached Kraft mill on the site of the current mill; and, in 1958, the mill switched from…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… on the nearby narrow gauge railroad—fire broke loose on Pleasant Street on October 22, 1886."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"In 1991 an angry man broke into his house and threatened his wife with a fake bomb. And, in 1999, he was nearly killed by a van while he was taking a…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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