Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Shares in the new venture sold quickly. S.S. Cumberland Onlookers await the S.S. Cumberland arriving from Boston for the first time.Lubec…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… graduated in 1874, she started to practice in the Bay Area back in California. After that she applied back to San Francisco Medical Society in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Captain Benjamin Church arrived in Penobscot Bay with a company of men and landed on what came to be known as 700 Acre Island, a small island near…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"This same ship, donated to the U.S.Navy, was converted to a warship and was the first vessel sunk in the war by German submarines in 1917."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… island of Islesboro, located in the Penobscot Bay, has a long and rich history, as one of the last coastal areas to be settled, in the mid 1760s."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… all the way up Washington Street is Merrymeeting Bay, and much of residential Bath. X Out of all of these historical objects, people, and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"The Bay of Fundy, the Maine coast, and even the Gulf of St. Lawrence were fishing grounds for the rest of the season."

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"… soldiers on August 19, 1864 and taken to C.S. Military Prison in Richmond, Virginia. From there, he was transferred to a prison in Salisbury, North…"

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

"… loggers, and others converged on Passamaquoddy Bay but disagreed over where Maine ended and New Brunswick began."

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"They had a hit, Casco Bay, in 1965.Starting in the 1960s, Cox inspired musicians to play bluegrass by providing lessons, formally and informally, and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… the weather would permit a sail boat to cross the bay Later they were carried daily The department established a mail route and paid the mail…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Edelson, S. Max. The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"Meanwhile, U.S. independence ushered new visions and conflicts onto the scene. After a costly war to secede from the British empire, the state of…"

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

"… Fall 2022 Lisa Brooks (Missisquoi Abenaki) Henry S. Poler '59 Presidential Teaching Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College."

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

"… Print Resources Allis, Jr., ed., Frederick S. William Bingham’s Maine Lands, 1790-1820 (Boston: Publications of the Colonial Society of…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"View of Pleasant Street and Blue Hill Bay, ca. 1850Blue Hill Public Library Sailing vessels were built in Blue Hill as early as 1792, but it was in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… house named the Copper and Gold Exchange The U.S. Census of 1880 reported that the population of Blue Hill had grown by 507 people over the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Chase, Georgiana. Stratton's Islands of Saco Bay, An Interwoven History 1605-1993. Fort Bragg, CA: Mendocino Lithographers. Gold, Susan Dudley, ed."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… in North Lubec – shell middens found on South Bay and Mill Creek. Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach ocean travel routes."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"In 1832 a canal connecting Johnson Bay and South Bay was dug and plaster mills constructed where Jeremiah Fowler employed 125 men."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… and craggy, defile the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay. Early navigators petitioned for protection from the treacherous scarred precipice as they…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Customs and the U.S. Postal Service under a single roof. And Washington Street would soon connect to Water Street, sometimes called Front Street…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Sargent, Ruth, Images of America: The Casco Bay Islands, 1995, Arcadia Press, Dover, New Hampshire. Schmidt, Gary, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster…"

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