Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"… of Davenport Memorial City Hall, Bath, 1928Maine Maritime Museum The Davenport Memorial building at 55 Front Street was constructed in 1929."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

".---(SORL) Duncan, R. Coastal Maine: A Maritime History, 1992. Fischer, D.A. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, 1989. Fisher, Jonathan."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… the lower Massachusetts colony or the nearby Maritime Provinces. The town of Southwest Harbor claims many Carroll, Stanley, Reed, Worcester, and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum During the 1930s, Northeast Harbor’s economy was not immune from the Great depression."

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"In William A. Bakers book, “A Maritime History of Bath, Maine, and the Kennebec River Region” he writes that in 1851, Captain Job Pierce, who was an…"

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"A maritime community such as Hallowell would experience its share of losses of husbands, brothers and sons to shipwreck, disease or accident."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"Sagadahock National Bank, Bath, ca. 1876 Maine Maritime Museum Before the Lincoln Bank was built in 1878, the Bath Bank building occupied the site…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"President Harrison, Bath, 1889Maine Maritime Museum Charter Contract, Schooner Platina, 1845Patten Free Library X In the years after…"

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"Chase Grocery Store, Bath, ca. 1895Maine Maritime Museum Before the drugstore, a well-respected grocery store owned by Hiram L."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… build them, while Canadians from Quebec and the Maritimes came to labor in them. Google Maps tells us that the distance between Byron and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"While the mission of the institution concentrates on the maritime heritage and culture of the state, the pioneers who founded MMM and the resulting…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"106-118 Front Street, Bath, ca. 1950Maine Maritime Museum The building that houses Wilson's Drug Store was built after the fire in 1837 and was…"

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

"The late nineteenth-century decline of Maine’s maritime industry was the most poignant feature of the novels of Blue Hill-born Mary Ellen Chase."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"1921Great Harbor Maritime Museum In 1900 when the YMCA opened in Bar Harbor (in a building that is now the site of the Abbe Museum) the organization…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"According to Ives, poets and singers from the Maritimes, often considered the best lumber camp singers, heavily influenced logging musical traditions."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Harness racing was at its peak in the Maritime Provinces at this time as well. The exploits of John R Braden were just as popular on the Canadian…"

Acadian Archives

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… economic difficulty to a region dependent upon maritime trade. By 1814, the tiny town of Bangor with 850 people had seen its share of hard times."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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