Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"They trapped and hunted in order to survive and were much relieved when the family arrived the following summer."

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

"… and children, valued for their dexterity and small hands. The work was demanding, with no set hours."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They caught cod from small boats and salted it. When they caught more than they could eat, they traded it for flour, sugar, soap, molasses, and oil."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… a subscription library offered to patrons for a small fee. An 1863 anonymous correspondent to the Hallowell Gazette recalled the excitement…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… Stream was hard to navigate because of its small size. But one way that people used the Vaughan Stream was for power."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Small lots with road frontage were sold piece-meal, often referencing Belcher's Field. That field was later known as Pratt's Field and was used by…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… King to Ledyard and PalmerPatten Free Library A small, wooden building was torn down to make room for the Ledyard Block."

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

"… end of the beach was sand, uniformly graded to small stone to larger stone to very large stone on the other end."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… they have to be resourceful to make a living in a small town in downeast Maine. The mix of long-time residents and new migrants has helped make…"

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

"… launched two to three vessels annually, mostly small schooners or brigs ranging in size from 46 tons to the 335-ton Saratoga."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"In 1871, James C. Emerson built a small sawmill on the site of where the spool mill was to be. The sawmill engaged in sawing lumber for various…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… Island, Northeast Harbor once had a thriving, if small, business center. Until the late-20th century, residents and visitors could shop for food…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… Six School, known as the Sprague School, was a small one having only a few scholars and was located in the West district."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The Inn offered the public performances of a small orchestra on Saturday evenings. The performances caused an intermingling of town residents and the…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The older boys in almost every family went to sea as ordinary seamen and many of them died at sea. The heyday of American shipping was from 1815 to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… of the Thuya Garden in the late 1950s and a small library of rare botanical books for Thuya Lodge. John D. Rockefeller Jr."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"It was very small and consisted of about ten kids from the Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, and Chester areas."

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

"Except for small skiffs (punts), no other boat building has occurred in Scarborough since 1959."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… challenge and opportunity in educating these small, mixed-level classes. High school students now have the option of taking the ferry to school…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"These rivers provided the opportunities for small mills to produce lumber and shingles, shovel handles, grains from the grist mills, cheese and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"While the region retains its rural small-town nature, inhabitants can much more easily commute to jobs in those cities and even Portland to the south."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Small chipped stone arrow points mark the arrival of bow and arrow technology, in addition to the age old spear and atlatl throwing board and dart."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"There were large families living in small apartments. (These buildings have now all been torn down as part of an urban renewal project in the…"