Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Wrappers, Teagowns & At Home Dresses

"… list are surviving home dresses, that obviously saw long years of wear for domestic duties, during pregnancies, and unlikely seen beyond the home…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations

"… "saw mill." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 03 May 2011."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"… I started coming this way (north) and when James saw the sign for Old Town he said, “This isn’t the way to Waterville."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"… Captain Moses Bradbury built homes and multiple saw mills on what became known as Spring's Island in the 1790s."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Mr. O. S. Thomes established his steam saw and grist mill at Cumberland Center around 1884. The stave and shook mill on Cold Water Stream was built…"

Stockholm Historical Society

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Camden-Rockport Historical Society

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Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Milbridge Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"These promoters saw the region as an underutilized resource for British success and security. Amid expanding imperial warfare, Maine offered a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… settlers—as well as to a new set of speculators from New York and Philadelphia, who saw land as a financial commodity more than anything else."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking Implements

"Parsons, who often acted as medical doctors, saw it in the same light. Up to the early 1800s it was difficult to find a Parson who didn't drink…"

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

"A visitor in 1792 reported that in one day he saw five ships in Eden, one headed to London, another to Santo Domingo and three to Boston."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"“Endeavor” was the name they gave to the first saw mill. As the early historian R.G.F. Candage said they were: "desirous of forming a new community…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… a young father was with an axe, adze or saw, he did not receive 75 cents a day (apprentices received fifty cents) per day until he was 21 years…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"… Stillman family grew in numbers, Clover Cottage saw the addition of more upstairs bedrooms and a new downstairs room and bath in 1928."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"When we saw the first of their little tents being set up, and the hunters racing in the Bay for porpoises, we were sure that the ‘season’ had really…"

Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"The 1920’s saw several changes in the police force. The biggest change in law enforcement was the ending of miscellaneous jobs such as dog catching…"

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"As the population of the Town increased Selectmen saw the need for a formal law enforcement structure and created the position of City Marshal, a…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"B.F. Choate, of the quarry road said that he saw a mysterious dark cloud but failed to report anything about it."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"1A. Wandering over I saw a strange sight. Two, or maybe three people were holding long leads that were attached to three bears; two brown; one black…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… waters of the Souadabscook and built both a saw mill and a grist mill. The grist mill proved a great convenience for nearby settlers, who otherwise…"

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"He saw the potential of a commercial venture when he viewed the power and grandeur of the Rumford Falls."