Maine Memory Network

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

"At one time ships, boats, and smaller watercraft were built in Scarborough, but the town does not share the same long shipbuilding history of many…"

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

"It is diabolical.” Pinky Ship, Belfast, ca. 1880Swan's Island Historical Society Dr. Small states, “About the year 1850 a decided improvement…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Three of his children became major public figures. Rufus represented New York in the United States Senate; and as a senator, worked on the Missouri…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… war, he was particularly concerned with coastal shipping and defenses in the District of Maine. Noting the hardships Maine had suffered, he began a…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"The Andrew Smith home was owned by Tina Joyce from 1946 to 1964. Charles and Ernestine King purchased the building in 1968."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"A successful merchant, he was also a farmer, owner of trading vessels and a town justice. The King home, built across from the marsh, was originally…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… Mary King, daughter of Richard King, a successful merchant, landholder, farmer and shipbuilder. The Southgate’s first home was at Dunstan Landing."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"Josiah was also involved in shipping in Newburyport with his cousin Jacob Little. Josiah served as a representative to the Massachusetts General…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The men who built the ships were paid only for the days that they worked. If one of the men needed a rowboat to go to his home at Morgan's Bay or…"

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

"… years, specializing in groceries, hardware and ship chandler's supplies. In Dark Harbor, Williams Brothers operated a large grocery store featuring…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"During the wars of 1675-1678 and 1688-1699, the Wabanakis—who had only conditionally authorized English traders to operate in the area, destroyed the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"Noyes graduated from Harvard in 1695 and was very active in Boston politics and infrastructure. He served as an officer in the Boston Militia, was…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"This merchant physician was known as a ruthless debt collector and given the amount of legal records contained in the Kennebec Proprietors collection…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw the Maine borderland as a place to…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… the timber, and to blacksmiths, carpenters, ship-chandlers and other suppliers of materials needed to construct the yards and vessels."