Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"Land speculators swarmed all over Maine surveying its natural resources. They plotted access to the Boston markets through Maine’s rivers and ports."

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

"… Library Over the next few years, the Plymouth Company became the Council of Plymouth. The Council granted large tracts of land to various…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… purchase of lands surrounding the falls, upriver lands and the valley lands below the falls, totaling some 1400 acres, in a manner not to inflate…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… the economic possibilities of the Oxford Paper Company bringing jobs to the area, he purchased a large tract of land that became known as…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… halted, the ice was harvested by a Hampden company, Dirigo Ice Company, and shipped to cities in the south to help aid in refrigeration."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… In 1888, the Islesboro Land and Improvement Company was formed to sell plots for development by wealthy families from Boston, New York and…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… potatoes, rye, beans and pumpkins on burned over land. Bears and raccoons ate their corn so that was not a successful crop."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… Maine, after the revolution and purchased land in what was to become the Town of Surry in 1803."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Paper Company; the Rumford Falls Sulphite Company; the Continental Paper Bag Company; and finally, the Oxford Paper Company."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Site Resources

"Bangor: Bangor Publishing Company, 1993. Print. Heseltine, Charles D. Bangor's Street Railway. Warehouse Point, Conn.: Connecticut Valley Chapter…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… under logging threat, participate in an adjacent land exchange with Savage, and swap land that resulted in permanent protection of the road…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"Land patents were only profitable to their owners if families were enticed to clear the land and build permanent homes, and various offers were often…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Virginia: Donning Company, 1991. Print. Bangor Lumber Company lumbermen with horses, ca. 1910Bangor Public Library Lumber schooners on the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… and under good pilotage along the rocky shore, landing for our geological discoveries even as old Champlain may have landed for his geography, and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… entire region was quickly taken with a force of 4 companies of 100 men each, who were assigned to clear land and erect a fortification."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… another company; the Island and Pacific railroad company in Chicago, in 1903 and become vice-president of that company."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… land and loading dock of the Blue Hill Granite Company were purchased and a clubhouse built in 1948."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"By 1853 this company processed more than 128 million feed of logs. The river drive in later years transported great quantities of long logs, and…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"… (Somersworth, NH: New Hampshire Publishing Company, 1973), 107. [5] Falmouth Gazette, 4/30/1785."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"The Bonney Aqueduct Company was established to provide water to the Village for fire protection. In 1894, a Watering Trough, casted in Concord, New…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Pendleton & Company. Captain Fields Seeley Pendleton (1870-1923) lived across the street from the store."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… first hundred years of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, incorporated February 16, 1844. Boston: Pepperell Manufacturing Company, 1945. (N)"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"With the construction of the Oxford Paper Company in the planning stages, he could see that there would be a shortage of housing."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… in almost every kind of business, say Plymouth Company matters, tontine buildings, canals, land speculations, navigation, agricultural societies…"