Maine Memory Network

City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

Music in Maine - Music and Television

"… in this area, Jim Crow was still segregating the South. I don't believe my father truly knew what a big deal that was at the time."

Bridgton Historical Society

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Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society

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Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"… of Portland X Wormell Sisters of South Lubec, ca. 1885 Almeda J. Case née Wormell is seated on the left side.Lubec Historical Society…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"Lyre, South Limington, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Pitch pipe, South Limington, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society John Joy (1809-1878)…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Around North Yarmouth. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia, 2006. Mitchell, H. E. Cumberland and No. Yarmouth register, 1904. Reprint."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… The railroad allowed the export of farm products south to Portland, Boston and Brighton, MA, and as far away as England."

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

"Allen and Lorenzo Allen, South Lubec; E.U. Brown, sardine packer; N.W. Marston and Willie Marston, South Lubec; W.B. Mowry; T.G."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"… out of Panama, was sunk by a torpedo in the South Atlantic during World War II on June 2, 1942."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"The quarry on South Street was opened to supply stone for the Western Division Railroad built in 1872."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"To proponents of slavery in the South, however, this would cause an imbalance in the ratio of free-to-slave states, which was split equally at eleven…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"1972, Greater Portland Landmarks History of Cumberland County, Maine. 1880 US Census Data North Yarmouth Timeline by Elizabeth Singer Maule The Story…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… others went to work in shipyards in Bath and South Portland and to other states. With a population of approximately 500, Surry contributed forty…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… to jobs in those cities and even Portland to the south. The earliest settlers in the Western Foothills were of predominantly English extraction…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… New Englander styled house with an ell on the South side, was built and located just uphill from A.C.’s parents and siblings living in the Old…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"The north-south length of the downtown is easily traversed in a 15-minute walk southward along Front Street from the Patten Free Library to the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… of Cumberland was developing several miles south. Although less than four miles separated these early villages, covering ground between the two was…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach ocean travel routes. Harvested smelts and sweet grass. Ox Cart at N.W. Marston's Store, South…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… fifty miles from the New Hampshire border on the south side of the Androscoggin River and was bordered by Township Number Two (now known as Milton…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… and bluegrass music emerged in the American South, a blend of English folk songs, Scots-Irish fiddle and dance music, sacred music, and banjo and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Dirigo Ice Company, and shipped to cities in the south to help aid in refrigeration. Although travel on the Penobscot River remained important to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… 1817-1902, who was a folk artist living on the south side of the Androscoggin River in what was the Aaron Graham farm."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"For Western Maine, well-known Deering High of South Portland; for Eastern Maine, the Hampden Academy boys, a team that had yet to win a state…"