Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… an early trader with the West Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses and lumber principally.” He was the owner of the first ship, the schooner…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"A family of seven lost there home when a large tree flattened their modest home on Academy Street. News Paper Report At 2:00 PM yesterday morning…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"Housed in the old Masonic Hall in one large room, there were forty in the entering class. A state law was passed in 1904, requiring towns to…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"By 1920 there were were additional large canneries on Commercial Street. American Can with its factory on that newer waterfront street had brought…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"These eminent people of Bangor have had a large impact on our society. Charlotte Blake Brown Charlotte Amanda Blake Brown was one of the first…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… abandoned in 1956, Charles purchased many of the large plants at Reef Point (including the extensive collection of rhodora) and incorporated the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"The Star Theatre, owned by J.E. Emery, was largely a pine-and-paint building, modest but not without bucolic charm."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The Knickerbocker Ice Co. was a large ice corporation that was also in Pennsylvania. The cost of cutting and storing the ice in the houses was about…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The Knickerbocker Ice Co. was a large ice corporation that was also in Pennsylvania. The cost of cutting and storing the ice in the houses was about…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"… Free Library The Johnson Shoe Factory was a large part of history in Hallowell.  Since the Jarnes-Hamburger Factory shut down, the shoe factory…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… The next sentence was an understatement: “A large number of these are necessary in the larger houses.” Left in the Skinning/Packing Shed were…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"… wonderment on reaching Bangor to behold such a large city with its vast fleet of vessels, steamers and cars, everything that my eyes beheld was a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… Winn by horse, it cut down on travel time by a large amount. Mr. Boyce used to arrive to Lincoln around 7:00 AM, but after he got his first…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"… laid them on buildings Aaron Huntress had a very large reputation for making bricks and building with them."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… the string” when the stern came between those two large trees on Stratton Island. It was understood that two territories existed off Pine Point."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… Bickford’s next three boats were constructed in a large, garage-like structure behind the Pillsbury Inn, which was next door to his house."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"The original factory was soon too small, large as it was, to accommodate a constantly growing business, and a great warehouse was built in 1902 with…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Falls on a cold winter day, the region was largely an agrarian society. The farming region existed above the Falls, especially in the East Rumford…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… or insufficient to reach the upper stories of the large buildings. Having nearly depleted the water in the reservoir, the firemen even pumped water…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"There were large families living in small apartments. (These buildings have now all been torn down as part of an urban renewal project in the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… York) Although the early Indian settlements were largely uninhabited by the time the first white settlers arrived--these foundations proved vitally…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… were interested in lands of this area, but were largely content to trade and in some cases convert the native peoples to Catholicism."

Otisfield Historical Society

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