Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"One time the potato service bought about 25 farm trucks at once and they were all red and white. Those trucks cost about $1,700 each so we made a lot…"

Cary Library

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Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… Abenaki” and were able to exchange their corn for 700 pounds of furs. The interests of the Plymouth men were entirely commercial; the sale of the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Congregational Church

"In 1868, 700 dollars was raised to put a bell in the original church structure. They paid $400 to purchase and install the bell."

Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century

"… ready-made suit priced at $25.00 (approximately $700.00 in the year 2020). The cost of Mrs. Scrimgeour's custom, detailed, dressmaker-made suit can…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"In 1932 the Criterion Theatre, with more than 700 seats, opened in Bar Harbor. Depression, War, and Fire"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"… and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood. He enjoys gardening and has his own Christmas tree farm where he grows 700 trees a year."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"14. Roughly 700,000 of Maine's 1.2 million residents were without electricity at one time or another. 15."

Boston Public Library

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"… and the Cumberland Town Council authorized a $700,000 bond issue. Terrien Architects of Portland designed the 8,100-square-foot addition, and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… classrooms for the then 220 students would all be 700 square feet and renovated. A computer room with 25 computers for middle school students and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"… with grassroots chapters established in 2,700 local communities in 37 states. The organization formed in the years following the Civil War to…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"33, no. 4 (Winter 2013), pp. 675-700, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press). See also, Hatch, Maine, 188-202."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"Over 700 laborers were involved in the construction. Many were Italian immigrants lured from working on the railroad in Machias by the promise of…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"700 Acre Island, Islesboro, ca. 1905Islesboro Historical Society SEVEN HUNDRED ACRE ISLAND Preferring to get away from the madding crowd on…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"It employed more than 700 men, women, and boys. The printing department alone employed more than 100 employees."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… life or life-threatening injuries, 300 families (700 people) were left homeless with only the clothes on their backs; 28 buildings had been…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"A small Socialist party garnered 700 hundred local followers prior to WWII. X Maine State Temperance Camp-Meeting Sebago Lake, 1876…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… of men and landed on what came to be known as 700 Acre Island, a small island near present-day Islesboro."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… they rented their larger house, Hilltop, a 3,700 square foot, 5-bedroom, 2-bath home located directly across from the Asticou Inn, which had been…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… statue at Bass Park is 31 feet tall and weighs 3,700 pounds, not including his axe and peavey. Paul Bunyan is made out of fiberglass and reinforced…"

Prince Memorial Library

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Monitor. Nearly 2,700 men from Bangor served during the Civil War, 236 of whom did not return home to their city on the Penobscot."

Acadian Archives

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