Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"Now we have steamers City of Richmond, Lewiston, Mt. Desert, Little Buttercup, Acadia, and Queen City of Bangor all running to and from this port.”…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"Fishermen who went toward Richmond Island stopped at a place called Deep Ledge and those from the Spurwink River would fish along that part of the…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Home of John Moreland Cummings, Richmond's Island, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society An ambrotype of Richmond’s Island in Cape Elizabeth shows the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… behind the breakwater at the northeast side of Richmond Island at Cape Elizabeth until morning and then continue on to Portland."

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"… in the Kennebec River at Swan Island opposite Richmond. These daguerreotypes of young Sarah were preserved in the Richards family until they were…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret

"In Maine's Richmond's Island in 1639, settler John Josselyn wrote admiringly of Captain Thomas Wannerton, "who drank to me a pint of kill-devil Rhum…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… of what the flood had caused was the destroyed Richmond-Dresden toll bridge. The cost of the damage was a total of $260,000."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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