Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… Road went across the Thad White Bridge, past York Hill, and on to Poplar Hill. There was a county road that went from Dixfield up to the north side…"

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

"Additionally, many in York County opposed separation because the current capital in Boston would likely be closer than a new capital in Maine.[15] In…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"Higher education was later provided at Stephens High School on York Street. It was built in 1911, with additions being made in 1915, 1917 and 1931."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… army and fought at Bunker hill and in New York. Colonel Josiah Little Josiah Little was the son of Colonel Moses and Abigail Little and born on…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Route 9 bears northeast at Walnut Hill Village. Starting here, a portion of the road is marked as the North Yarmouth Memorial Highway, so designated…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"… Gorham's Corner (the intersection of Fore, York, Danforth, and Pleasant streets) was a largely Irish-American neighborhood with more than its share…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… and Northeast Harbor, Charles travelled to New York City in the night to meet with JDR, Jr., convincing him to purchase the acreage under logging…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… coast, buying lobsters to carry to Boston and New York. As the demand for lobsters grew, something else opened up the lobster market -- canning."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"An Engineers Recollections. New York : McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., c1936 Webster, Natalie; Manager, Media Relations, American Society of Civil…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"People from New York came to buy furs a lot. Furs were expensive, so Gordon’s farms went bankrupt when people stopped buying them."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… products to markets in Portland, Boston, New York and beyond. Several generations of Dolloffs used the premises primarily as a dairy farm."

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

"… cities in the United States such as Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. At this time a back to the land movement of sorts emerged."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York and to Europe. So they built their own ships."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Abenakis.” (The Sandy River & Its Valley, Vincent York) Although the early Indian settlements were largely uninhabited by the time the first white…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field Book. New York: Harper Brothers, 1896. Print. Scott, Geraldin Tidd."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"… married Melinda Carlton and farmed in New York and Avon and in Freeman. He enlisted from Freeman as a Sergeant in the Company D 28th Maine Infantry…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"York owned a bus that brought students from Mosher and Perham Hills and Wesley Gardner conveyed students from the Farmington Falls Road."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… Fulton Redman, spent most of the year in New York and summers in Bar Harbor. He was also an avid supporter of the Ku Klux Klan."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… High School, she attended Elmira College in New York. During the Civil War era, her father served in the Union Army."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… BIW went into receivership and was sold to a New York firm that salvaged much of its machinery. Then, in 1927, BIW was resurrected by William S."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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