Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… water was unpredictable, they should move their operations to his side of the Stream and use his sawdust and waste as an energy source thus…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The Red Wing was owned and operated by Leroy M. (Lee) McCorison. It fit four passenger cars and crossed the bay in a half hour."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"In 1926, she joined a dance company operated by Kurt Jooss, a well-known Laban disciple and later she founded a well-respected company and dance…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"In 1900 there were about 70 bars operating in Bangor. Laws intended to stop the sale and use of liquor were often ignored."

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… place at Bass Park throughout it's decades of operation. Paul Bunyan The Paul Bunyan statue at Bass Park is 31 feet tall and weighs 3,700 pounds…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… this time to support the transition from a dairy operation to a riding school. Many lovely trails were built through the fields and woods both on…"

Prince Memorial Library

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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"After a three-day stay following an operation, “I have never, in any hospital, had such good care, such kindness, and thoughtfulness from all those…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… but for his direct impact on the day-to-day operations of a community in its infancy. It is rumored that Belcher also taught the children of…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Both canneries were important operations later in Seacoast Canning Co., as Plants 9 and 8. Photographs taken in the 1880s by T. W. Smillie of the U."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Railroad Company operated twelve miles of track between Bangor and Old Town beginning in 1836."

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

"They were operated by Jeremiah and Jane Drinkwater Buxton and family after 1796 and catered to stagecoach passengers, drovers, and peddlers."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Today, the mills no longer operate on the island leaving only the Weston hydroelectric station formerly owned by Central Maine Power."

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

"Organizations such as the Lions Club, which still operates, worked to raise money to help people in need, not to forget their importance in running…"

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

"… last of it being used as a hotel, the brothers operated a grocery store in one end of the hotel, Thomas Teague was proprietor until it burned."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… pictures indicate that the Model School was in operation many years before that date. The Training School Mallett Training School This…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… some kind of manufacturing will be in successful operation here in less than two years from the day the first train of cars arrived at the terminus…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Summer Street since 1944, departed to consolidate operations in Portland. In the heart of downtown, McFadden’s Drugstore ended its 55-year stay on…"