Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… Bowen's Interview with Captain Arthur Moore, Harbor Master  Shipbuilding was a huge industry in Hallowell in the late 1800s."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… newspaper, the fire was plainly visible at Bar Harbor almost 50 miles away. (Big Fire 2) Public Library catches fire, Bangor, 1911Bangor…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… village were used to build ships in Yarmouth’s harbor; farms produced crops that were sold in the village and village merchants sold goods to the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… had certain advantages: a good, protected harbor and plentiful reserves for fishing and hunting."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"The abundance of timber, good harbors and a demand for sailing vessels resulted in the development of the shipbuilding industry, which reached its…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… of her daughter, Mina, and died in Seal Harbor (where she lived with Mina for just one month) on December 5, 1925, at the age of 84."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… up the pretty little bay searching for a safe harbor to start a new life. As they lay at anchor surrounded by forested hills near a serene cove…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… whiskey being removed from a vessel in Portland Harbor Portland, ca. 1920 Collections off Maine Historical Society/Maine Today Media Booze seemed…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… of Long Island’s Hamptons, Newport, even Bar Harbor. And far cooler, for even the Rhode Island and Maine shores offered limited respite during…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… signal to Coast Guard headquarters in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Fog A lighthouse is more than light."

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

"… at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Bar Harbor during the 1930s helping build the infrastructure for Acadia National Park."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… Old Surry was blessed by nature/With her harbor, hills and steams/The streams that furnished water power/Before days we knew of steam."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Bucksport and Bangor Bar Harbor train leaving Bangor, ca. 1900Bangor Public Library This was a short line chartered March 1, 1870 to run 18.8…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… States Coast Survey, he charted the shoreline and harbors of New England. After he married Elizabeth Clapp Porter in 1851, they stayed for a winter…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The British seized ships in the harbor and burned eight. Selectmen Patten and Bradbury, fearing that the British would burn their village, negotiated…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Other coastal communities like Bar Harbor and Camden show similar signs of great education systems. Blue Hill village was centered mostly around the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina’s harbor. In response, President Abraham Lincoln sent out a call for a volunteer army from every state…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

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

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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