Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"It was easier to travel by boat and it made sense to live near the water and so many of the early pioneers who needed to get supplies and get around…"

Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society

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Owls Head Transportation Museum

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New Hampshire Historical Society

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Hampden Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"… in other parts of the island would sometimes travel to the Harbor (Swan's Island village) and stay at the hotel before catching the steamboat in…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"After traveling frequently throughout Maine’s wilderness, and established the Somerset Fiber Company in Fairfield, ME."

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Hanscom, who signed himself as a "traveling artist" on a circa 1860 ambrotype of Adam Winslow and his grandson Adam."

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… moved to Newcastle to pursue a new career as a traveling missionary. His journeys took him to Bangor, where he preached and taught school from 1812…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… avoided the economic burden and inefficiency of travel under the Coasting Law of 1789. The pro-separation press rejoiced, with one editor writing…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"… publications, people relied on letters from travelling friends, or returning relatives and neighbors for fashion news."

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"His studies at MIT were followed by travel in England and Europe in 1890 and 1891. Upon returning to Maine in 1891, Elmer Thomas opened his own…"

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

"Travel routes were primarily over the water; there were few and very primitive roads. Land-based travel kept towns logistically separated from one…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… Ryder’s cove summer community began, with people travelling from as far away as Florida to spend their summers on Islesboro."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… Society One of the first steamboats that traveled to Lincoln was called “Governor Neptune,” named after John Neptune, Governor of the Penobscot…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"A dance hall provided entertainment, as did traveling theater companies, minstrel shows and the movie theater, showing silent films accompanied by a…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"His family used to travel in a Model T Ford on the dirt road that was US Route 1 from Falmouth Foreside."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… the construction of better roads and making travel between the separate island villages easier."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Many Indian tribes in Maine were nomadic, traveling to the coast in the summer for fishing, stopping to plant crops in fertile lands along the way."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"During his third term, he traveled from Portland, then the state capital, to Augusta to speak at the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new State…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"Air travel was often the preferred method of travel for Guy; and his father William flew across the globe, from the tip of South America to Alaska."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Later when travel became easier, the towns remained insular. MDI had several principal high schools before they all consolidated into Mount Desert…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… men became United States citizens when they traveled to Houlton in 1875. This undertaking provided a necessary step to New Sweden becoming a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"… the quiet joy he took spending time in the lesser travelled and beautiful native flora and fauna of Mount Desert Island."