Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… on Swan’s Island the major industry from the mid 20th century to today. Islanders caught lobsters as early as the homesteading times, but most of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"… Public Library During the first decades of the 20th century output was high in terms of people and products, and the busts of 1930's would not hit…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"X W. C. T. U. Sign Early 20th century Courtesy of The Great Lost Bear, Portland This impassioned sign summarizes the attitude and goals of the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"Gamage were active shipyards in the 20th century with varying degrees of prominence. About 40 years ago, Robert P. Applebee, a retired U.S."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"Up until the early 20th century, the river played an important role in Maine’s history, both as a means for settlement of the area and later, one…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… movement popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which traveled to the area from 1916-1932."

Colby College Special Collections

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… main form of land-based transportation into the 20th century, long after the introduction of automobiles on the mainland."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Women's Firsts

"… members, however, showed significant change over the same time period, slowly including more women as we approached the close of the 20th century."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Overview & Introduction

"… and social controversies of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Temperance and prohibition movements, like the fight to abolish slavery and the…"

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

"Women found it unfair that they were not given the same rights that men were given. The struggle for women to gain the right to vote started in…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"… living on the Maine coast during the turn of the 20th century. There wasn’t easy access to drinking water and insulating the homes for the winter…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"… Wine Press Kendall & Whitney, Portland, early 20th century Courtesy of Doris Stockly This press belonged to Antonio Potenza (1891-1976) a native…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"… the late 1800s, then onto the early part of the 20th century and the Building of the Arts Era when concerts, festivals, dance and theatre were…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"Cohen attended the renaming ceremony on December 20th, 1997. "I am deeply touched by the decision of the Bangor School Committee to rename Garland…"

Acadia National Park

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

"X Hires Root Beer Early 20th century Collections of Maine Historical Society 1997.248 Hires Root Beer was marketed as a "great temperance drink."…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… Historical Society As Farmington reached the 20th Century, the number of rural schools dwindled to eight – Farmington Falls, Briggs District (Red…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Throughout the 19th and the first half of the 20th Centuries the Maine Central acquired smaller lines, including the E & NA, to become the largest…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… Centennial Souvenir, 1903) At the cusp of the 20th century, thanks to generous natural resources and determined citizens, Surry truly had become…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"1895Bangor Public Library By the turn of the 20th century, the lumber industry and Bangor's port were waning."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"August 25, 1870: Up to Tuesday night, 20th, the Railroad Company had driven about 500 piles of the bridge now being constructed from the left bank of…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine Postcard, early 20th century Courtesy of the Charles E. Burden Collection Many young men and women tended to see…"