Maine Memory Network

Cumberland Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"It’s scary because there isn’t a lot of room. I can’t stand people pushing and kicking me as they try to move from the back to the front of the boat."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… care” of the foxes, I took them to the skinning room on the other side of the farm to get the hide ready to sell."

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"… and Stephen were married, they wanted extra room to grow, to build their own house with the wood from the forest, and to have extra farming land…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Thomas had a house that had enough room to have two families in it at one time. At this time he could be hired as a carpenter that remodeled houses…"

Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"During its first year, Queen’s Hospital admitted 360 patients. Demand for trained nurses led to the opening of the Training School for Nurses of the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Allegedly, there was a club room on Main Street boasting a dining room, poolroom, bowling alley, and a fireplace."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"There she photographed two workers in the Brining Room who have been identified as Leeman Wilcox and Richard Munson."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"There was a kitchen and dining room in the basement, theater and dance hall on the ground floor, balcony and dressing rooms on the second floor, and…"

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… 12,000 outpatients, treated 7,000 Emergency Room visits, and over 4,000 clinic visits. Staff performed over 4,000 surgical procedures."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"… heating? We had woodstoves but it only kept one room warm. My wife had it harder than I did. WIFE- I lived in St."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"This plant, authorized in 1930, had room for four boilers, with the first two units going on line in Jan. 1931."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Cohen School) and Bangor High School. She knew she wanted to be a writer and editor at a very young age."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… the lower floor serving as a vestry and school room. By the early twentieth century, the church was in very bad repair and was only used for…"

McArthur Public Library

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

"Then they went to the Packing Room where women and girls placed the herring in cans, generally in a large well-lit area on the second floor."

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

"A “machine room” and a “laboratory” were constructed. Beneath them, in the water, were placed specially constructed wooden boxes called accumulators…"