Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"(History of Penobscot County Maine with illustrations and biographical sketches 1882) During the great years of lumbering in Maine, most men in…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… summer theater-going public of coastal Hancock County. Just months before the start of the Great Depression, a group of actors, directors and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church

"The History of the Town of Lincoln. Penobscot County, Maine: Dana Willis Fellows M.D., 1822. Print. Mattanawcook Observer, Feb. 1984. Print."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The 1881 edition of Colby's Atlas – Hancock, County, Maine lists five Surry merchants and dealers selling dry and fancy goods, boots, crockery…"

Acadian Archives

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… Eliot worked with George Dorr to form the Hancock County Trustees of Reservations in 1901. It was this organization which acquired the first…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… was near what is now the corner of the Bog Road and the Long Falls Dam Road. The next was directly across the street beside the Kimball Block…"

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

"… competing with town schools throughout Hancock County, and every home game was well attended. But the rivalries among the MDI town schools were…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… boundaries changed, Guilford was located in the counties of Somerset, Penobscot, and finally Piscataquis. Pond Block, Guilford, ca."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"It included the whole of Knox County (except for Fox Island) and most of present-day Waldo County, in which Islesboro is now located."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… Hill, before 1914Blue Hill Public Library The Old Schoolhouse The Old Schoolhouse, also known as the village school, was the schoolhouse located…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… resident over the age of 10 in the Washington County town of Lubec.” Lubec’s 20-foot tides were harnessed to power plaster and grist mills."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… emergency, and acute care in Northern Penobscot County. The facility "provides dozens of services..."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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