Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Members of Hampden’s Grange are proud to state that it was the first in Maine. Another first is the piano that General Crosby is said to have brought…"

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

"The building is now used by the Fernwood Grange. The village also had several schools. Education was important to the townspeople."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Members of Hampden’s Grange are proud to state that it was the first in Maine. Another first is the piano that General Crosby is said to have brought…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"The parade ended with the Grange and “Am. Benefit” Float. A spectator attending the parade wearing a more modestly priced lapel pin, probably…"

Skowhegan History House

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"It was later renamed the Swift River Grange and located on Roxbury Road; it is now the Free Store. Mothercraft and Junior Mothercraft were…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… and Rebekahs, the Masons and Eastern Star, the Granges in East, South, and North Blue Hill, and the Baptist and Congregational churches were the…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… running through its center featuring a town hall, grange hall, two stores, churches, a blacksmith's shop, a schoolhouse, a boarding house and two…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… meeting spaces, theaters, town halls, and granges. A 1991 study showed at least 66 opera houses existed in Maine, from Presque Isle’s Perry Opera…"

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

"… the street from the current Guilford Valley Grange. From that time on the town has always been generous in supplying funds for educational support…"

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

"… groups included the Odd Fellows, the Fernwood Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Willing Workers. Bridge Clubs were also popular."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… town government, and through the influence of the Grange, they assisted in determining state policies.” Many of these men also turned to inventing…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Grange. . Prosperity continued into the first several decades of the twentieth century as the population…"

Acadian Archives

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