Maine Memory Network

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"The village lies along the banks of the Carrabassett River about four miles northeast of the West Village and three miles southwest of the North…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… fires built a niche in the forest close by the banks of a beautiful bay. Then the coming of the English settler, bearing the ax as well as the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"The bank has been around for more than 150 years. It has never been successfully robbed. That is one of the reasons why people go there. David C."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… gentlemen, including a tract along the western banks of the "Swanckadocke" River to Richard Vines and John Oldham, "containing in breadth by the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… built a home on Shaw’s Point and later the Bath Bank building, the first brick structure on the Point, on the southwest corner of the intersection…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"Half of their business was in the Far East: particularly China, India, and Southeast Asia. Tremendous numbers of workers were needed for the textile…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"… to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Much of the town is wooded, with gentle hills that run from the borders along the river to the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Welcome

"Welcome Bangor from the east bank of the Penobscot River, ca. 1905Bangor Public Library Welcome! to the Bangor Community Heritage Project."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… disappear among the tribal bands to the north and east; their culture and customs only to be puzzled out through the archaeological record and the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"… destroyed all of that block of Centre Street east to Front Street. Former Town/City Hall, Bath, ca."

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"[13] Banks, Maine Becomes a State, 32. [14] Willis, William, History of Portland vol. II (Portland: Charles Day & Co., 1833), 258."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… Main Streets, in which the new George's National Bank and Georges Insurance Offices were installed. Throughout the years this building housed…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men

"… on the Kennebec was a stand of timber, a sloping bank and a little good water. Hallowell-built "Topaz," 1828Hubbard Free Library In 1799…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… still acts as the point of parting; to the east lies Woolwich, to the south Phippsburg, to the west, West Bath and Brunswick, and all the way up…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… men fished off shore on commercial vessels at the Banks or in recent years, aboard draggers, trawlers or gill-netting vessels, most likely out of…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"It was the only bank east of Wiscasset, but due to the carelessness of a cashier, Crosby suffered much financial loss through his position at the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… slope from the “Lower Light” to the western bank of the Penobscot River. The residences of Summer Street reflect Hampden’s 19th century wealth, for…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"… rights to the wharves and stores on the lower bank on Knox Street (Fort Wharf), where he established a shipyard."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners, aquaducts etc., etc., etc."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Park, a rustic amusement park built on the banks high above the Penobscot. A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… town, as Ethel West, a resident of South Rumford whose home was on the bank of the Mt. Zircon Stream, expressed in her poem “A Town in Maine”."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The banking business was so profitable that Gould intended to sell his tobacco business and go into banking full-time."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"The two excessive amounts of water flow caused the Kennebec River to flood its banks. The flood hit the community on the night of March 13, 1936."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"His impact on the area was immense from the first banking services to the lumber industry to the Presque Isle Electric Company."