Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"Skowhegan Island provided an important stopping place for the Native Americans. It was a place where they could fish, plant corn, and harvest corn on…"

Westport Island History Committee

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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

"… and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested in their sovereignty and the imposition of the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… beauty,” Crosby’s affectionate nickname for native brook trout, in Mt. Blue Stream. Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… was especially practiced by the Ainu, Inuit, Native Americans and people of the Bay of Biscay. Rock carvings have shown several whales being…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1919 to 1934: The Nation Follows Maine Into Prohibition

"… Americans, Prohibition opponents like New York native Pauline Sabin, leader of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… Anne Chase Akers Allen Another interesting Strong native was Elizabeth Anne Chase, born in Strong, October 9, 1832."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… and English, depicts the Devil giving Native Americans rum and whiskey. As in many temperance images, a mother and child plead father not to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Edmund Muskie Those crazy Coke and Mentos guys Native Americans—in this case the Abenakis—flourished in the western foothills for millennia before…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"It is unclear when the Native Americans first came to the area they referred to as the “great intervale”."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"There, he encountered French traders and Native Americans and promptly chased them off. His company then sailed to the larger island of Islesboro…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"The program included a life-size nativity scene, and a stage for nightly performances. On the podium with the President for the lighting were: Mrs."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… after John Neptune, Governor of the Penobscot Native American tribe. The steamboat was owned by the Penobscot Navigation Company."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"So plentiful were lobsters that Native-Americans used them for crop fertilizer and fish bait, as well as food for themselves; early settlers…"

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"A native of New Brunswick, she enrolled in Madigan Memorial School of Nursing in Houlton in 1937 before taking vows in the Sisters of Mercy in 1944."

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"The Native Americans were the first recorded people to have the religious faith of Catholicism in this area."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Perhaps F.B. Foss, a native of Surry, summarized the town's economic downturn best in two verses of a poem he wrote for the 1903 Centennial: Old…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… M., Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830 – 1890, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… seasonally in the area of Bath, no permanent Native American villages occupied the site. And, no settlements resulted from early European…"

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

"Web. 11 Apr 2013. Young, Susan. "Hailing a native son Bangor to rename middle school after Cohen." Bangor Daily News. 9 Dec 1997. Web."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… and small boats, following the example of Native Americans. People traveled by streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and long tidal estuaries and bays."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… very fond of the woods and enjoyed studying the native plants, flowers, and wildlife. Presque Isle Historical Society Arthur Gould passed…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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