Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"Both American ships burned in the Penobscot at Hampden, either set afire by their own crews or by the British."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"Hallowell Ship Captains John Agry, Sea Captain, Hallowell, ca. 1801Hubbard Free Library Captain John Agry was born in 1763."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldier transport ships, Bangor, 1865

"Soldier transport ships, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904)…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"The Civil War & Biddeford X Confederate money, 1862Biddeford Historical Society "It is with feelings of patriotic pride that I refer to…"

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"… worked in logging, milling, papermaking, built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined and cut granite and slate; cut and shipped ice, as well as…"

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"… ice, this industry was international and products shipped all the way to India and Sri Lanka. The Laconia Mills were one of the earliest…"

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"Ice harvesting was not only a local, state or national trade, ice was shipped all over the world as far as South America, India and China."

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Report on cotton for prison, New Orleans, 1862Maine Historical Society…"

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Fifth Maine Regiment Veteran Reunion, Peaks Island, 1912Fifth Maine…"

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Civil War Veterans of Biddeford, 1916McArthur Public Library Reality…"

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Robert McArthur and comrades, ca."

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco X Granite quarries became more popular in Biddeford during the Civil War."

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Biddeford and Saco downtowns, ca.1887McArthur Public Library By Paige S."

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Abraham Lincoln's Deathbed Scene, ca."

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco During the Civil War, the State of Maine provided aid to the families of…"

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco X Prior to the attack on Fort Sumter, the Union and Journal, out of…"

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Plan of Lands of Saco Water Power Co."

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco From the Union and Journal (Biddeford, Me.), May 10, 1861, p.2."

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Robert E. Lee surrender order, 1865Maine Historical Society The month of…"

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Log Drive, Saco River, ca."

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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco St. Mary's Church, Biddeford, ca."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The men who built the ships were paid only for the days that they worked. If one of the men needed a rowboat to go to his home at Morgan's Bay or…"

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… Historical Society From the coveted tall pine for ships' masts to the coastal cedar for shingles, Maine's forest land has been the source of the…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"… during the 1790s, and between 1794 and 1807 the shipping industry tripled. Perhaps most importantly, however, was the founding of 55 additional…"