Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"1888Nordica Memorial Association CAMPMEETING JOHN ALLEN: John’s parents, William Allen & Love Coffin hailed from Chilmark Mass., on the Island of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"Shows ran six days a week, three shows a day. Tickets were reasonably priced and Down East Magazine described the experience at the time as…"

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

"… in late 1960, setting up offices in the old John Trenholm barber shop on the left side of Washington Street, Highway 189, close in proximity to the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… built along the Sowadabscook Stream in 1835 by John Crosby. It used no machinery; the paper was pressed in hand screens and stretched on poles to…"

Old York Historical Society

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Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"… was established in Guilford existed in Captain John Bennett’s shed. School was in session two times per year."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"In the winter of 1807 John Everton moved his family into the settlement which was a real blessing as Mrs. Everton was skilled in obstetrics."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"John Church deeded two and a half acres of land to the citizens of Farmington, to create a Village Center."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… built along the Souadabscook Stream in 1835 by John Crosby. It used no machinery; the paper was pressed in hand screens and stretched on poles to…"

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

"Mr. Davis also stated that a John Bartlett came to the West Village in the year 1812 and felled trees and started a carding mill, hauling the…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"John McBride Shipyard, Lubec The John McBride Shipyard, located on Water Street, launched a number of schooners and barkentines in the 1860s and '70s."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… in 1789; Daniel Lunt of Falmouth in 1790; John Fox of Portland in 1792; in 1794 to Isaac Thompson, Joshua Eddy, and William Thompson, all of…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"John Tyler drove the truck that pulled the float. J: Did they continue to hold the contest? S: No, I think that was the last year."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… along side his father and brothers, Charles, John, and Walter. His father passed away in May of 1872 when Arthur was only 15."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the Great Works in the West Village in 1803, taking advantage of the abundant forests."

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

"None were injured except John Cowett, whose leg was badly broken below the knee, the bone being split and forced through the flesh."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… Family, the Drake Family, the Cummings Family, John and Pat Selicious, Lynn and Harry Anderson, and photographer Steve Maines."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Francis Fassett (1823-1908) and his apprentice, John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940). Fassett was the single most important individual in the creation…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… settlement of 1604 on Bone Island (modern-day St. Croix Island) and Robert Pagan deposition. This relied on information shared by Passamaquoddy…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"“A Report of a Survey of the River St. Johns and of the Coast from thence to Passamaquoddy,” enclosed in Michael Francklin to the Board of Trade, 22…"

Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"… this included seven colleges: Nasson (closed), St. Frances College (UNE), University of Maine Portland and Gorham (USM), Westbrook Junior (UNE)…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"He was then captured on June 24,1864, at St. Mary’s Church in Virginia. He died on October 6, 1864, in Andersonville Prison of scorbutus."