Maine Memory Network

Westport Island History Committee

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… was a long-time contributor to the Boston Post. In Canada the War Measures Act (1916-1919) banned alcoholic beverages."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"The town records and letters in the post office connected to the store were all saved without injury."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… Street in Farmington, on the lot where Farmington Post Office now stands. Their children were successful in their own right."

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

"Each village had at least one church, a post office, schools, and multiple businesses. Even though each village has its own features and businesses…"

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

"In 1903 the United States Post Office was located in the Braeburn Building on the corner of Water and North Main Street."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… Larrabee X Eugene Larrabee occupied the post from 1930 to 1939; his children and Johnson’s walked together to school."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"Ross and Mrs. Ada Knowles of the post office. The "cachet", as it is called, is a 2” x 2” square with a picture of an airplane and it reads…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Schools, post offices and churches were established in whatever manner possible—run out of private homes before they had buildings of their own."

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

"The Buxton enterprises included an early post office, cooperage, and blacksmith shop. Samuel B. Chase built a brick Federal style house in 1831 that…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… to Turtle Head, had several small stores and a post office. Its young residents attended the Parker School."

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

"… church, and transacted business at the post office and stores in Walnut Hill. The Loring children went to the nearby Buxton School, a one room…"

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

"We have a Presbyterian Church, a post office, a historical society and Ace Electric Company. The Lion's Hall is still here but not used very much."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… in 1676 with raids on both the Hammond Trading Post at the Narrows across from Chops Point on the eastern shore of the Kennebec and the Clarke and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… hardware stores, blacksmith shops, schools, post office, telegraph lines and a telephone service."