Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… dancing debut at age 5, in one position of the Highland Fling. At right, she is in "her ever favoured hobby sitting by a window all alone in a…"

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

"Lawrence River. (See, for example, the map of the “imaginary” highlands produced by the British in 1840, below)"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"Hampden Highlands Post Office, ca. 1908Hampden Historical Society Hampden has been described as “perhaps, the most famous of the old towns of the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… riverine border for Maine did not account for the highlands designated in the 1783 treaty. His proposed border would have limited Maine’s access to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Maine’s international border was the most bitterly…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… time, now Leavitt Street, went all the way to Highland Terrace. Another road, that roughly paralleled Webb River and junctioned with the Backingdom…"

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… Sainte-Cecile in Lewiston; and the Scottish Highlands Caledonian Pipe Band in Portland. Johnny "Basshorn" Susep and the Penobscot Band Penobscot…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… building was erected on Roxbury Road and one near Highland Terrace before 1850. The next to come was the Walton School, then the Kingdom School…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"… it and moved it to Highfield, his home at 14 Highland Street. The Preble home, to the east of the Wadsworth-Longfellow house, was demolished in…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… the Cummings Suite, the Garden Room, and the Highland Room--all ranging in price from $105-$135."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"John MacGregor was born in the Highlands of Scotland on May 2 ,1846. The first part of his life was mainly school and working in the “whip sawing”…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… moving into their own Portland home, which was on Highland Street. While the couple lived in the Wadsworth-Longfellow house, Alexander had an…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the lowlands.” (History of Farmington Maine From Its Settlement to…"