Maine Memory Network

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… its way from full statehood status was a vote in Washington to admit it into the Union. [28] For a detailed account of the transition in…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents

"… known for his imaginative biography of George Washington, entered the temperance fray with this book, which became popular throughout the United…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Acknowledgements

"… of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C, Unprocessed in PAGA 7, no. 392 (D size) [P&P] X This exhibition, which was on…"

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… where’ in the form of a few paragraphs" Albert Washington Weatherbee was born in Springfield, Maine on April 30th, 1841 and died in 1904, in…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"With no delegates from Washington or Hancock counties, little interest from York County and objections due to the Coasting Law, the effort soon died…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"1895Maine Historical Society George Washington Kemp, Leeds, ca. 1890Maine Historical Society George Washington "Wash" Kemp, came to Maine in…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… Newburyport, Salem, Thomaston, Boston, Portland, Washington City, New York, and New Bedford. What came into Hallowell were product such as cloth…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… well as the nearly ten years he served as George Washington's Secretary at War under the Articles of Confederation and later Secretary of War under…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… War from 1785 to 1794 and close friend of George Washington, left his duties and retired to Thomaston in 1795, arriving on a sloop via the St."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Once in Washington, the 1st Maine performed guard duty in Washington, and received more training. At this time the capitol was in great danger from…"

The General Henry Knox Museum

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Penobscot Marine Museum

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"… family cannot do without." - Peleg Wadsworth from Washington, D.C., to his son George, December 30, 1800 The silhouette was made about 1790."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… had little impact on the closed-door politics in Washington in 1820. Despite an initial pushback by leading abolitionists and organizers in Maine…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"… as a free state in 1820, allowing politicians in Washington to delay a growing sectional crisis over the future of slavery."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… Architect of the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. With the departure of Harry Wilkinson in 1899, the firm became known as Coombs and Gibbs…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… Architect of the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. He maintained his connection to the Rickers, who acquired the Bay Point Hotel in Rockland…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"Presque Isle Christmas Tree, Washington, D.C., 1958Presque Isle Historical Society As seen with the Washington Monument in the background."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… new farms are beginning to appear in Hancock and Washington Counties. The sheepdog trials are still a major attraction known throughout the U.S."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… Walsh McLean (whose husband was the heir to the Washington Post), Edsel Ford, or various members of the Rockefeller family."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"… had been primarily engaged in the defense of Washington, D.C. They were encamped overlooking the Potomac and Alexandria Rivers near Franconia, in…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"The soldiers were trained for only one day in Washington D.C., so they were fairly unprepared. Eventually, they were stationed in St."

Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors

"… photo courtesy of Roger Stevens X James Washington "How does this topic connect to you in your life today?" The Gateway Motors building…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… on train tracks to trade with Aroostook and Washington Counties, as well as parts of Canada and New England."