Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Music stores

"… with eleven retail locations in Maine and New Hampshire and a very popular website. Bull Moose has always worked closely with local musicians and…"

Northeast Historic Film

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"1900 Portsmouth, New Hampshire Courtesy of The Great State of Maine Beer Book, Will Anderson MHS QJ M 338.476633 An24 Frank Jones ran the largest…"

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"Around Hallowell. Dover New Hampshire: Arcadia Publishing, 1996. Chelsea Ferry work cited page Historical Hollowell. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Harris, Larry."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"In 1826 Jacob was also licensed to preach by The Hampshire Association. He stayed as a professor at Amherst until 1829."

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

"… John Wentworth was Born in Portsmouth New Hampshire, was a Surveyor of the Kings Woods and served as Lieutenant Governor from 1717-1730."

Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands

"… Portland Band.” By 1843, members recruited New Hampshire musician Daniel Chandler (1818-1902) to direct the band."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… 1825, the Wendell Brothers from Portsmouth, New Hampshire sent Ira Fish and 17 other men north to build dams for saw mills on Mattanawcook Stream."

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"He spent his youth in Chicago and New Hampshire, where he began playing guitar. He started performing at WFEA radio station in Manchester, New…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"Located on the corner of today's Congress and Hampshire streets, the tavern served as courtroom and a meeting place for rebels."

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

"… manufacturing plants in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Northern New York, which included the Rumford Falls Paper Company."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… of the early settlers came from Cheshire, New Hampshire, Newbury, Massachusetts, and Berwick, Maine, and they scoped out the area on fishing and…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"And patriot Hopley Yeaton, native of New Hampshire and appointed by President Washington as the first officer of the Revenue Cutter Service, came to…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"… many summers selling her wares in Rye Beach, New Hampshire. Sylvia got into a railway crash in 1933, causing her to go blind until her her death in…"

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"He was born in the early 1800s, either in New Hampshire or Norway, Maine. He was married April 1, 1824. He and his wife, Polly, raised eight children."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… One was located about fifty miles from the New Hampshire border on the south side of the Androscoggin River and was bordered by Township Number Two…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"… of Connecticut, Rhode island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, part of Vermont and all of Maine. With the hurricane it brought winds that at its peak…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… 1894, a Watering Trough, casted in Concord, New Hampshire was put into service in front of the Court House. The trough cost the town fathers ~ $125."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Have All the Herring Gone?” Nor’Easter, Maine/New Hampshire Sea Grant, Fall/Winter 1997. French, Hugh T., “Smokehouse: Last of a Breed”, Salt, No."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Martha’s Vineyard (MA), and other areas of New Hampshire and Massachusetts were hard working, educated and skilled."