Maine Memory Network

Wilson Museum

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Apart from the fishing industry, many laborers were attracted to Swan’s Island’s quarries. The largest of these, the Baird's Quarry in Minturn…"

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"This first residence contained three small apartments, which housed women, some with young children, for up to eighteen-months."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"(photo taken in 2020) X Located on High Street, this building has been a rather prominent structure in town."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Apart from being a very well-known writer, Mrs. Kline also served some time in the U.S. military. After her writing career kicked off, she went back…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"In 1803 a portion of Holmantown was set apart, became incorporated, and was named Dixfield. The land remaining was called Holmantown for the next…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"Some houses were divided into apartments (or tenements), others were boarding houses where rooms were rented or shared."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"These apartment complexes housed many of the less well-paid workers of the mills. According to a Rumford Falls Times article of August 4, 1923 by a…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"So the army people had to take the bateaux apart, carry the pieces over the falls, and then they tried to put them back together."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… of years that really set the teams of that era apart from the rest. It was in the Fall of 1971, when the Rumford basketball dynasty really began."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… Walnut Hill and East North Yarmouth, four miles apart, were equally busy. The two villages often saw themselves as separately aligned: East North…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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