Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks

"A word of thanks We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for the help and support they provided to Team Biddeford and the…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… States was right here in Maine, against the French Catholics coming down here from Quebec. So, we understand. We have been part of it as well."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"Many of these new people were French or English from the St. John Valley, eastern Canada, or southern Maine."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The growth of the mills brought the French and the English into the community. The depression saw the closing of many of the mills and businesses and…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"The people that came to Stockholm were mainly French-Canadian, Swedish, or from the southern parts of Maine."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… such as the 32 fishing trawlers built for the French government. Downtown also survived the post-war decline, but had begun to show serious signs…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 4 of 4

"But, in some segments of the market, French design still held its old cachet. While pirating French couture designs was an old practice, in the 1950s…"

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

"… it wasn't a building to be enthusiastic over (The American Sentinel of February, 1883). In more recent years the building was used by Bath Iron…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3

"1948Maine Historical Society Limited French fashion influence during the war had the effect of encouraging home-grown American fashion design."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3

"… is reminiscent of a 1946 afternoon dress by French designer Jacques Griff. Norman Norell evening dress, ca."

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

"… Mary Quant and Biba, American Bonnie Cashin, French Givenchy and St. Laurent. "Felix" Crimplene dress, ca."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"The French and Indian wars were winding down. Maine’s Native Americans, the Abenakis, had been decimated by European disease."

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

"Although the Wabanaki Nations remained a formidable power until the 1760s—their strength augmented by French support from Québec and Acadia—the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… Bay was the site of one of the first French overwintering settlements in the Americas under an expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… Chief Jean Baptiste Neptune worked helping the American colonists in Machias during the American Revolutionary War but died during period around…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"It punished American merchants in the process by prohibiting trading. However, Paine surreptitiously continued trading at great risk and was so…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… tanner and a farmer, and his wife, Harriet Leslie French. His attendance at the Maine Normal School lasted only two years."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… conflict, and negotiation among Wabanaki, French, Acadian, British, and US individuals and groups over several centuries."

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

"As Loron wrote in 1725, with the help of a French Jesuit priest, “Here lies my distinction—my Indian distinction."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… 1621, long disagreements about the boundaries of French Acadie, and where to draw the line between colonial Massachusetts and Nova Scotia."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine. By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… at least eighth graders - - Strong offers modern French to grades K-8; Enjoy a 95 percent average daily attendance by students and teachers; Show…"

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

"… through the years, escalating during the French and Indian War of the 1750s, when many European settlers were captured, killed, or had their homes…"