Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… the men leave to enlist in the Army during World War I. Amie Rancourt of Mexico went to work in the mill at the age of "not quite 15 years."…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"These cemeteries honor many war veterans and some of our founding ancestors. Although Science Hill and Eddy Cemeteries require a four-wheeler ATV to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… to them for service in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution. Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… in Ordnance Department until the close of the war. Returning to Mexico in 1865, he bought back his old store at the Corner and revived his trade."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"… the first male student to register since World War II. The once again coeducational school issued redesigned uniforms as well."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… the greatest attention after the Second World War. In 1948, a new School of X-Ray Technology accepted its first students, with Patricia Kane as the…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… provided a landing strip and runway for the post war craze of flying. It was also an ideal landing spot for long distance Atlantic flights, there…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Black, Edwin, The War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, 2003, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"… Edward Foley Memorial Fund 1997.245 When Civil War came, the Napoleon of Temperance took his campaign to the front by forming his own dry regiment…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… be started in August when the boys from World War I returned. Recreation in Stockholm Many people in Stockholm were looking for a way to get…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… in the influenza outbreak during the First World War. Mr. Totten owned a china shop. Lucy and James Bain had a variety store."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"World War I had an impact – the school experienced a fire in the dormitory in 1917, and the Government eventually did agree to allow funds and…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"… have been supporting the efforts of the Civil War, probably an expensive venture. There is also a large rock that one of the cables of the wire…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… had donated the land to the town for the Civil War Soldiers’ monument. Click on the photo below then zoom in left center and see her lifting the…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Revolutionary War hero Col. John Allan lived on Eastport’s Moose Island in retirement. And patriot Hopley Yeaton, native of New Hampshire and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… man who never lost hope throughout the raging war. Emerson Fales Transcription Camp of Maine 4th Near Bottoms Bridge Eight Miles from Richmond May…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"But things have changes so much since the war and I hope thing never go back to that. What impact did WWII have? We picked up a lot of business."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"The Civil War shut down southern markets for fish and ice and insurance rates skyrocketed from Confederate predation on Yankee trading vessels."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… 44-46 Black Point Road is today. During the Civil War, the Oak Hill station was a busy shipping point for horses and livestock for the Union…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, had been inured to hardship, toil, and poverty, and fully realized the blessings of home and its…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Acadian Archives

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… to a warship and was the first vessel sunk in the war by German submarines in 1917. Ryder's Cove Wharf, Islesboro, c."