Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"Search the Database The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database organizes and searches for items at the commission (project) level."

Architecture & Landscape database - Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884

"Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Development…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911

"Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"Biddeford's first hospital, Trull Hospital, was opened in June of 1900. At the time it was built with medical profession was divided into two…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… library in 1883 and by 1892, Bangor General Hospital opened as a state of the art medical facility."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"In 1910, 40% of businesses in the village are trades and hospitality-focused businesses have grown to 10%."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"Original Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Building, Blue Hill, ca. 1922Blue Hill Historical Society The Growth of Public Institutions."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"The hospital is currently a 25-bed facility, with 24-hour emergency services and outpatient specialty clinics."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"Bell began working at the first Franklin Memorial Hospital building in Farmington. Today, Strong has its own health and dental center, and the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Caring For Our Families and Friends

"… including “removing sick people to mainland hospitals.” (Westbrook, 173) Leila WhitehillSwan's Island Historical Society The town paid…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"(Walsh survived and was taken to the hospital.) Brady Gang shooting, Bangor, 1937Bangor Historical Society Brady, who was still in the car…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"In 1932 the Inn suffered the same fate as the hospital had and burned to the ground. Rusticators traveled to and from Maine by great steamships of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… eleven other women founded the Pacific Dispensary Hospital for Women and Children in San Francisco. It was located on Taylor Street, and health…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… nursing school at the Eastern Maine General Hospital nurses training program. Her branch of nursing in the program was surgical nursing."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"… the Hotel Strong and then served as a 16 bed hospital run by Dr. Charles Bell and owned by the Forster Manufacturing Company."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… nurse for almost 10 years at North Shore Baby Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"The population has remained stable, as many new residents work at Franklin Memorial Hospital and the University of Maine's Farmington campus."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"During Stevens’ time as chief engineer hospitals, schools, churches, homes, mess halls, roughly 5,500 building total were built."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… would host Town Meetings, Charity Balls for the Hospital, voting space for elections, and many other things."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Soon, a much-needed hospital would be established on South Street. Hotels and restaurants would host the volumes of tourists passing through on their…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… with 26 killed in battle or having died in hospital. A monument honoring Lubec’s Civil War veterans, as well as those of subsequent wars, was…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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