Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 6 of 17

"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Report on cotton for prison, New Orleans, 1862Maine Historical Society…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… Highway MarkerCumberland Historical Society English Settlers Arrive In the mid-1630s William Royall moved to the Casco Bay region from Salem…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"Kemp, a former enslaved person, escaped to Union lines early in the War. A year after Kemp's arrival, the Howards located Kemp's wife and two young…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy

"… had two classes in 1849, and they were “General English” and “Higher English”. The first library of the new building was donated by Charles E."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… of the French and six times in the hands of the English.The British prevailed at the Battle of Quebec, which opened this area to a flood of English…"

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

"… organization formed in the years following the Civil War to improve the economic and social position of farmers and their families."

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… music emerged in the American South, a blend of English folk songs, Scots-Irish fiddle and dance music, sacred music, and banjo and blues from…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"… Wabanakis—who had only conditionally authorized English traders to operate in the area, destroyed the trading posts and drove away the small number…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"Two gowns are made of imported, probably English, woven floral silks. Such textiles were the product of highly skilled, intensive hand labor, and an…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"Seventeenth-century English, confronted by the reality of powerful Indigenous Nations on this supposedly vacant land, paid annuities associated with…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"English guests all too often misinterpreted such hospitality, misunderstanding the obligations that accompanied the privilege of sharing space."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"Poler '59 Presidential Teaching Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College. Known for her extensive archival research and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… Treaty and peace (for a while, anyway—until the English issued scalp bounties starting in 1740s and 1750s) possible; Pere Pole, a Revolutionary War…"

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

"This tribe was friendlier with the English, so historians speculated that he learned English from them."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… suited to an active country life, fine quality English dark wool broadcloth, and skilled tailoring led to the rise of superior English tailored…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… with her mother and brother, had sold land to English colonists eight years prior, and Jane insisted that the English honor their prior…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"Nearby Merrymeeting Bay was an English placename which recognized Wabanaki purpose. Just as multiple rivers converge in Casco Bay and Merrymeeting…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3

"… mini and new young ‘swinging’ fashions include English designers Mary Quant and Biba, American Bonnie Cashin, French Givenchy and St. Laurent."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"During the early and mid-seventeenth century, English settlers with very different notions of property arrived in the Dawnland, forming coastal…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… smaller schemes, landownership was a matter of English law, to be recorded and proved on paper. Coll. 61, vol. 1A, p."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… Kennebec Proprietors are delineated by the areas English-speaking settlers made claim to, and are specific claims on pieces of Wabanaki territory…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… provision so long as no damage shall be to the English Fishery. Although deeds did not always recognize subsistence rights, Wabanaki leaders later…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… that Norridgewock was “abandoned” after a violent English raid in 1724. The maps instead reveal a long, and more complex, history of resistance…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"English Friends of Capt. F. Patten of Bath, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society A daguerreotype of the three English friends of Captain Patten depicts…"