Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840

"Lane manufactured and sold umbrellas and musical instruments at 92 Court Street in Boston from 1820 to 1844, specializing in bass drums for militia…"

Historic Hallowell - Dummer House

"Dummer House Dummer House, Dummer's Lane, Hallowell, 1968Hubbard Free Library In 1789 Nathaniel Dummer moved to Hallowell with his wife and…"

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

"… Farm - Making and Preserving History Down The Lane to Skyline Farm Photo by Diana Logan X Skyline Farm is a community-based non-profit…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"As Cush Lane noted, when he was a child, it took two days to reach Surry from Boston. His family used to travel in a Model T Ford on the dirt road…"

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

"In her memoir, Down Memory Lane, Emily Phillips Reynolds recalls the Ober Grocery Store in 1901. She says, “This was an old-time country store."

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

"The Lane, North YarmouthNorth Yarmouth Historical Society Linking the Towns: Transportation and Roads One of the most important ways our communities…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… the street was known initially as Davis’s Lane and became the first central business district of the community."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The dirt lanes and roads were still muddy or impassible much of the year. It would be decades before paved highways were completed."

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

"… Wheels." Extending from the village center is The Lane, leading to the Loring family's Skyline Farm, one of North Yarmouth's farmsteads where acres…"