Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… need of a trip to Alaska!” (The Alaskan Gold Rush was in full swing at this time, the major difference being that actual gold was being found…"

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

"Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia, a leading physician, helped introduce the notion that alcohol was not always a medicine."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"Wade, ca. 1917 Photograph by Mark Skinner The Little Water Girl, as she is commonly called, was commissioned in honor of Lillian M. N. Stevens."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… Metta Victoria Fuller, 1853 X Rum, Fire Water published in Ahiamihewintuhangan: The Prayer Song, 1858 Collections of Maine Historical…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"… Meetinghouse, was a stagecoach depot and popular watering place for the likes of critic John Neal and artist Charles Codman."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"… Confusion bore conflicting accounts in the rush to rescue. The Lubec Herald says that “”Miss Stella Burhoe plunged in and succeeded in saving…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"“Remembering that caution I dropped my surveying instrument before I hit the water,” said Chandler."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… in the spring, sun high in the sky, water rushing over granite rock, the Androscoggin River flowing high with melting winter snows from fields…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"This wealth of available water was very attractive to early settlers on Massachusetts’ frontier. Long before the settlement of Hampden, the native…"

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"… athletic field was covered with several feet of rushing water. There was a lot of damage caused by this flood; homes were filled with debris, mills…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"He then took advantage of power created by the rushing waters of the Souadabscook and built both a saw mill and a grist mill."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… transportation train tracks being swept away in rushing waters. Speaking of transportation issues, Hallowell had also lost the bridge connecting…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"Some elders where rushed out of nursing homes without power, and moved to shelters where there was power."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"In time, the rush of flowing water finished cutting a channel wide enough and deep enough to accommodate larger ships."

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

"Workers rushed to the factory whenever the whistle blew. The conditions were dismal. As one writer described them, "The windows were jammed with…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… of 1923, water overflowed the concrete abutments, rushed around the side through the coal pits and burst through the windows, carrying tons of coal…"

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

"Hussey Woolen Company. With water rushing over the dam, logs were hurled directly through the windows of the lower floors of both mills."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"He was being rushed home by horse and carriage but sadly died before they reached the house. Mr. Arnold, one of Haley's employees, had just walked…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Gould suggested to them that, since the supply of water was unpredictable, they should move their operations to his side of the Stream and use his…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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