Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House

"Thomaston’s Captain Samuel Watts and business entrepreneur Edward O’Brien both ran successful shipyards."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 1 of 17

"Business in Biddeford began to expand as entrepreneurs took advantage of the river and sea access in the area."

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"Herman Cassens, a young entrepreneur, started a postcard company, the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, in the mid-coast town of Belfast…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 2 of 2

"… to work in the huge textile mills, many became entrepreneurs in their own right and opened small businesses up and down Main Street."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"More entrepreneurs came to town, to lend their visions, enthusiasm, and indeed their names to the progressing area."

Leeds Historical Society

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"A growing community of artists and entrepreneurs are breathing new life into the downtown, and hope to transform it back into the lively neighborhood…"

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"… Courtesy of Janet and Ray Verrier Acadian entrepreneurs from Van Buren, Patrick (1897-1959) made beer for sale and Marie (1903-1975) occasionally…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… Crick Village became saturated with businesses, entrepreneurs moved west on the County Road to open spaces."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… the natives did not cease; however, settlers and entrepreneurs continued to come to the area. Sir William Pepperell, Jr."

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

"George P. McKay, a local entrepreneur, noted for bringing the first bus system to Bar Harbor, recognized that there was a growing market for a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"Chisholm, a paper-producing entrepreneur of the time, first came to Rumford’s Falls on a cold winter day, the region was largely an agrarian society."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… during winter months prompted some local entrepreneurs to launch business ventures, which were helpful for survival and personal comfort to island…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"He became the most successful entrepreneur ever to hail from Islesboro. At one time he owned more wooden sailing vessels than anyone in the United…"

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

"… when Charles Taylor, a respected engineer and entrepreneur from Wellesley, Mass bought the necessary material to build a piping system from Bennett…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… for them to sell land to different exploring entrepreneurs. In the transition from monarchical rule to representative rule, clarity over land…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"They joined with local entrepreneurs who shared the idea of canning small herring they called “sardines” to compete with real sardines from Europe."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Among the prominent entrepreneurs of this time was newcomer William King, who built a home on Shaw’s Point and later the Bath Bank building, the…"