Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"Incorporation After the Revolutionary War, deeds and titles were still not clear, so the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had to straighten things out."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"As design moved beyond the War years, the emergence of youth culture dominated fashions. Understandably, a shrinking percentage of shoppers retained…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"After the Revolutionary War dignitaries visited the Chief to discuss place names and indigenous knowledge."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016. Brooks, Lisa."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"… for an 1825 ball in Portland, in honor of Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette. By 1825, the dress was altered and re-constructed…"

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

"… permission to convene in Falmouth, but the Revolutionary War stymied the establishment of other Masonic lodges."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"During the Revolutionary War, scores of leading proprietors remained loyal to the British crown; although new leadership soon muscled into control of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"At the end of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016. Brooks, Lisa."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower; Revolutionary War documents; French spoliation claims for the brig Hope; records of churches founded…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"… Church, began shortly after the American Revolutionary War. George Washington was not yet President, and Maine was still part of the Commonwealth…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… in 1740s and 1750s) possible; Pere Pole, a Revolutionary War veteran, and his attempts at protecting the Sandy River; and Polin, in his attempts at…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"After the end of the war, though, the men returned home to their jobs in the mills and back to regular production."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXHIBITS

"EXHIBITS NEW! THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERAS AS EXPERIENCED IN BIDDEFORD AND SACO A fresh look into a tumultuous era for the people of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… TO READ MORE ABOUT BIDDEFORD DURING THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) Because of the high cost of soldier's bounties to be paid by the city, the war had an…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… of English and Scottish ancestry and many were Revolutionary War veterans. There were 450 people living in Skowhegan by the year 1790."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wartime on Mt. Desert Island

"Many of the local men fought in the Revolutionary War and MDI continued to be represented in each of the subsequent wars."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"The war years in the city were difficult; high taxes, city debt, mill layoffs & the ensuing joblessness and poverty took their toll."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"… the theater, rallying patriotic fervor with World War I artwork, or inventing new technology to keep a local industry booming, Biddeford has…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… Society From the 1680's to the 1760's, war after war broke over the natives and settlers like the waves crashing along the rocky shoreline."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"Occasionally they warred with other tribes along their frontiers, but these would end after a time. Their numbers were difficult to determine: they…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… time--specifically before and during the Civil War and during World War II. It is for this reason that you will see simple citations for the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"Civil War Monument, 2010. Photograph by Jamiee Beatson, Biddeford High School. X Biddeford, however, has other plans for itself."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"… to innovate and improve themselves, but the post-war economies and business environment were setting them on a path of which there was not return."