Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… but on one particular day, the park hosted a record number of patrons. A newspaper ad crowed, “12,000 People at the park yesterday."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… ages, and birthplaces are known from census records and other documents: Rebecca Ridlon, kitchen maid, worked in the house from 1814-15 and is…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"Many accidents and deaths were recorded in regards to the ferry. In 1809 the first wooden covered bridges were built so people could pass onto and…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… of the box is different than the several Hall recorded, but there is nothing here that would have been unfamiliar. (P. 456)."

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"Print. "Gravestone Record." Mattanawcook Observer. 5th ed. Vol. 1. Alan Hawkins, 1983. 207-14. Print. Mattanawcook Observer. 1st ed. Vol."

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"He had to record them again from memory. Bailee Bartash “Create a ‘why’ question, research the answer, and create response answering the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"The rich records about the creation of the border preserved here provide readers with the historical resources to reconsider how and why the border…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… coming to its promised usefulness; and its record for the first two years, though some of its lines may tell of uncertainties, trials, and…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"By 1914, Maine’s sheep industry had hit a record low. With the short supply of wool, women turned to silk. In March of 1918, the U.S."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… to Trustees - Thompson and Richard; from probate records it appears they took very good care of her money."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… Steamship Company officials, including records of goods shipped to and from Lubec in sailing vessels and estimates of passenger traffic."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"Very few goods were saved, but the town’s records and letters in the post office were saved without any damage to them at all."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"Listen to "Beautiful Ohio" performed by Fritz Kreisler  Bar Harbor Casino A Play at the Bar Harbor CasinoBar Harbor Historical Society…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Northern Maine can be found in the archaeological record and the landscape. The Paleoindians, ice age hunters of mammoth and caribou, camped around…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… mile on the half-mile track in 2:15.5, a world record for a half-mile track at the time. The First Two Auditoriums Bangor Auditorium under…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"The town records and letters in the post office connected to the store were all saved without injury."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Ancestry®, 2019, www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/mary-alden-hopkins_192560670. “BHS Presents: Mary Alden Hopkins-The Only Daughter of a Princess…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… log kept by the light keeper at West Quoddy Head recorded as many as 17 outbound and 15 inbound craft passing the Head in September 1874."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… buildings is an amazingly complete and attractive record of Bath’s history. Early Settlement While members of the Abenaki lived seasonally in the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… it was ever opposed, and will scarcely wish to be recorded as having given it the “cold shoulder”. Sept."