Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"Riverside Park was not unlike other amusement parks and resorts of the period. Landscape and civil engineer Frank Blaisdell drew up the plans for the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"1908 Front Row, L-R: Winthrop L. Guile, Fred E. McLeary, Leslie A. Vining, Charles Pease, Abner W. Mayo, Horatio N. Luce, John W. Durrell, W."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"… Edwin Starbird, pictured in center of the back row, took many of the pictures that made Fly Rod Crosby famous.Strong Historical Society Ms."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"Before motors were made the Maine guides had to row wooden boats and canoes a lot around the local ponds and lakes."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… up to stage level, and flooded the first 14 rows of seats. It also filled the orchestra pit and covered the piano."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… and lintel were repeated throughout “Merchants’ Row” after the fire. A brick Town Hall was begun in 1837 at the intersection of Centre and Water…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"eliminating the need for a rider to operate the controls. Larry Park talks about a two-row digger."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"From the Cranberry Isles, that was seven miles. Baptists added an overland trek to their rowing. This time also saw new settlements."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… Society They spent their days sailing and rowing across Somes Sound and around the islands, swimming in Lower Hadlock Pond, climbing and tramping…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… man sitting on the grass at the left in the front row. His wife, Mabelle Strout Savage, is the left-most woman standing on the porch with her right…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"Torrey Home, City Park, Bath, ca. 1887Patten Free Library There were two additions built to the library."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"Eventually, the building was torn down to make a parking lot. The people associated with the Dreamland were Samuel Davis and William H. Van Dorn."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… Street, despite the small facility and limited parking. It was a nice brick store, but as the years went on the location became inadequate for…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… the other side of the building, above a current parking lot, there is also an advertisement for a cheese company. Masonic Parade, Bath, ca."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"THE DIGGER EVOLVES Digger with Motor This one-row digger was entered in the Mapleton Days parade in June, 2009 X In the 1930s some diggers had a…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"In addition to politics, he was a Member of the Park & Cemetery Board. He was prominent in Masonic Lodges, and he was a member of the Knights Templar."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"… at the right are dominated by the new Mussey’s Row near the corner of Temple Street. Built by merchant John Mussey to replace an earlier block of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"… Society After the potatoes are laid onto the row by the digger, the potato picker would first fill a basket such as the one pictured here."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"(Rowe) Ruins of the Universalist Church, Bangor, 1911Bangor Public Library A firewall at the foot of Hammond Street Hill saved City Hall with…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… men using a hand digger to dig potatoes from the rows. Others picked the potatoes from the ground and put them in barrels."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"1911 A North Lubec class photo, Myron in front row, third from left. Use the zoom tool for a closeup.Lubec Historical Society Attending North Lubec…"

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"John Susep stands on the far left in the second row. John Susep at the Maine Centennial, Portland, 1920Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"When the river was high and swift, they would be rowed across by boat. In 1894, George W. Ridlon arrived in Mexico."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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