Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905Mount Desert Island Historical Society Somesville was by now the economic and cultural center of…"

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

"… The Lubec Herald in July 1898: “The inlet to Mill Pond accommodated 240 accumulators of which sixty were pulled up each week."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Pond's main thesis was that slavery violated man's God given rights to freedom; slavery must be ended."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… to travel from the Kennebec River, through ponds and streams, until they reached the Little Norridgewock to Sandy River."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Radiocarbon dates from basal sediments of Mansell Pond indicate that it was ice free by 12,400 C14 yrs BP, or about 13,200 calendar years ago."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Gould Butler) Walton Mills and Walton Pond, Farmington, ca. 1930Farmington Historical Society On their arrival the early settlers began to…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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