Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The confluence of the Kenduskeag River with that of the Penobscot River beckoned development. Yet, it would be more than a hundred and fifty years…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"… Cartwright, Hubbard Free plans renovations Maine Sunday Telegram, April 12th, 1987, The Flood of ’87 - A Souvenir Section OTHER: Interview with Bud…"

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"… Cartwright, Hubbard Free plans renovations Maine Sunday Telegram, April 12th, 1987, The Flood of ’87 - A Souvenir Section OTHER: Interview with Bud…"

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Moor. Mr. Moor died in the Mattawamkeag River trying to cross the river to give the north part of Mattawamkaeg its mail."

Historic Hallowell - St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and the Hubbard Free Library

"… Yes, they still had services by candle light on Sunday morning’s until they got the power turned back on."

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"… Saturday, February sixteenth and by midnight on Sunday, there was a full foot of snow. Near the beginning of the storm, snow plows were able to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"… a church building began on Ballard Hill, and on Sunday of November 30th, Reverend Matthew W. Reilly celebrated the first mass."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… Etched by a Globe Man," Boston Daily Globe, Sunday, July 20, 1890, copied and typed by Richard J."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 2 of 2

"The Saco River was particularly effected. Man rowing during a flood, 1936Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Gannett Newspapers issued a…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

"… a community of about 1,200 on the Sheepscot River, because it was away "from the hubbub of the city" and ships could easily be loaded there."

Phillips Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"High School Portland and Rumford Falls Sunday Paper Train August 1898, BuckfieldGreater Rumford Area Historical Society Buckfield was first…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… possible expanded space for parish functions and Sunday School classrooms, a kitchen, and restrooms."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"He later became mayor of Bath. On an early Sunday morning of January 27, 1894, at the Sagadahock House, a fire arose."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"It was a mile and a half walk that she made each Sunday, weather permitting. Sabbath day activities started with Sunday school, followed by 10:00 a.m."

Margaret Chase Smith Library

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Cary Library

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… served at the park for twenty five cents, and a Sunday menu offered a choice of Penobscot River salmon, roast spring lamb, cold boiled ham…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"They left Saturday night and Sunday morning, the 4th Inst. after showing us all night. Saturday we worked in the trenches within one third of a mile…"

Skowhegan History House

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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"4 no. 2 James Lawrence obituary, Maine Sunday Telegram, Sunday June 11, 1939 Big House Little House Back House Barn. Thomas C."

Colby College Special Collections

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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