Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… Early ferries were conveyances that were mainly boards and ropes fashioned to make a raft, or they could be boats, large or small, which could…"

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

"At first, parents boarded the teachers, with each family's time based on how many children it had in school."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"… second floor had a telephone exchange (the switch board which allows phone operators to connect phone lines) for a while."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… down as President of Oxford to remain on the board as only a member, while his son, by the same name, would take the helm."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… churches, a blacksmith's shop, a schoolhouse, a boarding house and two wharves, where, for a time, loads of coal and pulp wood waited for the…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… quasi-municipal non-profit organization had a board of three trustees elected by the voters of the district."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"Some board games. And listening to that- pretty much listening that radio station was our evening entertainment. I think you went to bed earlier."

Colby College Special Collections

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… at the new plant that it was difficult to find boarding space in town. Over 700 laborers were involved in the construction."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"… prepared him for his job." He serves on the board of CBS and a few other international advisory boards."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"A Board of Directors met a week later, with Waldo Pettengill elected as president. Hugh Chisholm could not hold this office as he was then President…"

Acadian Archives

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… dollars was eventually raised, a school board elected, and the first school was kept in the loft of Capt John Bennett’s shed until the first school…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… road commissioner, and a member of the school board. All of these people had a hand in creating the town of New Portland."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"The Guilford Board of Trade proclaimed the 100 year anniversary of the town's existence. Committees and sub committees were appointed; buildings were…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The year 1842, was the first 100,000,000 board foot year, and six years later lumber merchants shipped double this amount of lumber from Bangor's…"

Bangor Public Library

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… Telegram, Sunday June 11, 1939 Big House Little House Back House Barn. Thomas C. Hubka, University Press of New England, 1984 Eastern Argus, May…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… of enormous amounts of both pine and spruce boards began. Logging crews would cut wood in late summer and by winter roads were cleared for the…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"In the first few years of the switch board being here, there were six subscribers, John MacGregor, Dr. L.H."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… from the establishment of the Maine State Board of Agriculture in 1856 and the University of Maine in 1865."