Maine Memory Network

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

"Gorges, an English aristocrat and member of the Plymouth Company, was determined to overcome the difficulties that had plagued the Popham Colony…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… in Portland had provided coursework in the English language and citizenship before, this effort, led by veteran teacher Clara L."

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

"… which was used by some of the earliest English explorers and settlers. Birch bark box by Mali Agat, ca."

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

"… of cotton which caused extreme rises in bids from English buyers. With everyone facing financial hardships during the war, manufactures shut down…"

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

"In the streets people spoke mostly English and French, but you could also hear German, Dutch, Albanian, Greek, Yiddish, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"The area of modern Maine was the crossroads of English and French North America, and all the old hatreds and arguments crossed from the Old World…"

Life on a Tidal River - About Us

"… School Cooperating Teachers Jennifer Estabrook, English, James F. Doughty School Karen Novak, Social Studies, James F."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… place,” but Captain George Waymouth, an early English navigator, renamed the river the Georges—often interchanged with the St."

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"Early English and French explorers engaged in territorial struggles during much of the 1700s, so it wasn’t until 1772 (when the young colony was…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… in the Western Foothills were of predominantly English extraction, and most arrived in the late 1780’s and early 1790’s, many homesteading on land…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"They called the Mikmaqs Souriquois, and the English called them Tarrantines. In the Presque Isle region, the Maliseets (Malecite) were the primary…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… arts, important courses in the academy included English, Latin, Greek, writing, the art of speaking, logic, philosophy, geography, arithmetic, and…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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