Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"Gentle slopes led down to the deep and sheltered channels on tidal waterways. Timbers could be laid down on the shores for ships and then easily…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… been landed the Cumberland staggered across the channel to the Atlantic Works, where she will be repaired."

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… like Curly O’Brien’s country show on WLBZ/ Channel 7 from 1966 to 1980. Associated with singing cowboys of the American West, like screen star Gene…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… period (7,500 -6,500 years ago) include full channeled gouges and early forms of pecked and ground stone axes some of which were found along the…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The Lubec Channel Light was commissioned in 1890. Shipwrecks led to the construction of a lifesaving station at Carrying Place Cove in 1874."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Waterpower generated from the middle channel of the sluiceway supported these mills. In 1811, a milldam was built making it possible for an increase…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… ice-breakers are being constructed in the channel of the river a few rods above the bridge, which will smash the ice-cakes into such small…"