Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"During the 1800's a fair number of African Americans made Bangor their home. John Holyoke, a man from Brewer, was another abolitionist from the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… Hamlin, Stephen King, Charlotte Blake Brown, and John B. Curtis are among this group of noted Bangorians."

Bangor Historical Society

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Brick Store Museum

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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"Silvester Gardiner and William Brattle. Charles Vaughan, John Merrick and others were hired as land agents by the Proprietors to protect and develop…"

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"and 11:00 p.m. A poem by John McInnis is a graphic description of this historic conflagration. A significant and financially catastrophic fire…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"Arthur’s son, John, continued to carry out this process, even after the others closed, right up to 1990 when his “stand,” too, ceased operation."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"… northwest of the Wadsworth Street bridge) near John Paine’s original wharf, in what was earlier General Knox’s pasture."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"John B. Thomes of Pittsfield, MA, granted the corporation a plot of land on Main Street to be used for a public library."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… attorney Elbridge Gerry Harlow, trial justice John Mason Eustis and future governor of Oregon LaFayette Grover."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"… block, Portland, 1877Maine Historical Society John Corey, a dry goods merchant with a store on Middle Street, built the house around 1850."

Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"… the four Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In 1933, Queen’s Hospital, under the leadership of Sister M."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… to Hallowell almost by mistake? In 1820, Captain John Bradstreet was sailing when nasty weather forced him to port his ship in Randolph."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… to Hallowell almost by mistake? In 1820, Captain John Bradstreet was sailing when nasty weather forced him to port his ship in Randolph."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"… of study way started at the North Village and John S. Williams was hired as principal. In the spring of 1890 the first class graduated from North…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"The second fatality was John Scribner, a 70 year old cobbler, who was killed at the corner of Exchange and State Streets when a wall from the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"Two of the first permanent settlers were John Roundy and Joseph Wood. They settled near the reversing falls and the Salt Pond."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… Ira Dearborn Fish was born January 4, 1790 to John and Rebekah Fish. Ira married a woman named Almeda and had at least two sons and one daughter."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel

"In 1874, John H. Murray’s Great Railroad Circus came to Lincoln. In total there were 71 actors, and they all stayed at the hotel."

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"When Mr. Pinkham died in 1916, John Grindell bought stock in the store and made it into a clothing store for men."

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… and his Diving Armour, patented June 14, 1834; John J. Towle and his Combined Foot-Warmer and Lantern, patented June 8, 1880; and Henry O."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Lieut. Col. John F. Godfrey, Bangor, 1863Bangor Public Library When war between the South and the North broke out in April 1861, Bangor eagerly…"