Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Indeed, there is much hard evidence to support the “theory” that native people were indigenous to Aroostook County."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Congregational Church

"It was a plain white building with a bell tower and forty-four pews. The total cost of the church was 4,750 dollars."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… this passage: “Seldom are geological facts more plainly presented. Seldom have pleasanter days been spent than those recalled while writing out…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"… a result, I've learned a lot of stuff that's just plain fascinating, as well as knowledge that will help me with library patrons." -Sally Leahey…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"His father traveled to the Western Plains to recover his son’s body, but the body was never found. James's parents are buried in Strong, and an…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Flying Torah

"Gordon graduated from the University of Minnesota before he became a pilot. Having flown more than 50,000 miles during his career as a pilot, as well…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Robert Kinney's Land on the Plains, and hinder any Person from Lumbering or Tresspassing" These letters were given to many settlers on disputed land…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"The center section has three double-window bays, flanked on either side by two bays. The eastern portion incorporated the Preble Hotel bays, an…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"Plain ordinary dress and working clothes worn by the financially less well to do, scarcely survive. Well used, repaired, passed on or repurposed…"

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

"… to a contemporary newspaper, the fire was plainly visible at Bar Harbor almost 50 miles away."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… its shores, its landscapes of hill, dale and plain…” The same qualities began to bring summer vacationers to town toward the end of the 19th…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… its shores, its landscape of hill, dale, and plain ; they were pleased with it, and the testimony of a century and a quarter is " that the place is…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The tops and bottom were cut out of the plain plate and shaped. There was rimming and bending to be done, soldering of the ends of the sides…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… for the Eastern Abenaki, who farmed the fertile plains of the Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers, and spread out along lands west of Casco Bay in…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… stained glass, but the rest of the exterior was plain. Earlier ones were referred to as “Nickelodeons” because just their storefronts were revamped…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3

"The American broad silk industry became firmly established during the 1880s. By the 1890s a profusion of colored, affordable (but not cheap)…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Organdy summer dress, ca. 1863 - Page 1 of 4

"… Society Description This simple, plain white, unadorned organdy summer dress with a pleated crinoline skirt includes a matching…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"… bustle dress with plain sleeves and basque, plain bustle, with a large cut velvet floral motif on the bodice and skirt. Dated about 1886, Ida M."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 2 of 2

"Early gigots are seen on the plain beige silk wedding dress worn by Arcy Cary on September 3, 1829, and on a whitework trimmed cotton dress ca. 1828."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 4 of 4

"… the beginning of the bustle era with descriptions of evening dresses flat and plain in the front with skirts gathered in a bunch at the back."

Music in Maine - MAKE

"Around this time, the large drum of the Plains Nations became part of broader Indigenous social gatherings, creating a network powwows across what is…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Gauze evening dress with silk sash, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"The gauze or cotton organdy dress is constructed of four pieces - bodice, overskirt, petticoat and sash."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"… her machinery guns & work generally which was all plain and of the very best material and painted & varnished and clean as a penny." View…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"They often performed in regalia from the Plains, like full feather bonnets from Poolaw’s Kiowa heritage."