Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… Thelma and her husband moved to her hometown, Bangor, and opened a convalescent hospital there. She operated that until her death at the age of 55…"

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Guilford, Maine - STUDENT CORNER

"… Middle School Students PCMS Students Visit Bangor Daily News PCMS Students visit to Bangor Daily News X Read the Guilford History Hunters…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 1 of 3

"… & Elliott Company Guilford Bed and Breakfast Bangor and Aroostook Railroad DAVIS BROTHERS FURNITURE Text by: Morgan King and Brittany Cookson…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"They did this to connect the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad and the Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railway."

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

"In a recent Bangor Daily News farewell to the Auditorium article (February 2013), the Rumford High basketball team of 1977 was named as one of the…"

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

"… in the State Class A Championship game in Bangor. The margin of victory was 20 points, the most for a State game at the time."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… parade formed, led by a band of 42 pieces from Bangor with the well known leader Adelbert Wells Sprague."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad tracks are on the left. The first (closest) building on the right is M. Holbrook's Pool Hall and Bowling Alley."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"Patterson from Bangor. He used the Carnegie Classic Revival style for the building. There are many Carnegie Libraries throughout the United States."

Fort Kent Historical Society

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Stearns Lumber Company in East Hampden employed many Hampden men. From its modest beginnings in Brewer in 1836, the Stearns mill became one of…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Stearns Lumber Company in East Hampden employed many Hampden men. From its modest beginnings in Brewer in 1836, the Stearns mill became one of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… reports that railroad carloads of broomcorn, ash lumber from Bangor and broom handles were received."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"In 1905, while searching for lumber, he found a holding ground for lumber up on the Aroostook River towards Washburn."

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… in 1962 and 1963 when he worked trucking logs and lumber. Allagash Records sold over 9,000 copies of Tombstone Every Mile before Tower Records, a…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"Bangor became the lumber capital of the world. boat pulling logs across Moosehead Lake X Logging started with the contractor- he selected the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"John River and then back into the United States duty free. The farmers in the area catered to the lumber industry by growing grain, hay and potatoes…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"In 1905, while searching for lumber, he found a holding ground for lumber up on the Aroostook River towards Washburn."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"… and Leaders Don't drink the vanilla, Lumber camp, ca. 1910Maine Historical Society Don't Drink the Vanilla Isaac Simpson (1874-1957)…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Phair in the lumber and starch business where he toiled for 30 years. The Mooseleuk Club decided at the time they purchased Braden that “Uncle” John…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses and lumber principally.” He was the owner of the first ship, the schooner Dispatch, built in Hampden in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"In her letters to John when he was away at a lumber camp in winter, Ida describes daily challenges: the cow drying up, firewood stolen from the…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… interests of the time, farming, ship-building, lumbering and shore fishing. And in Surry, as I remember it in those days, there was really much…"