Maine Memory Network

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"Executives, their families, and their staff were welcomed at the Maine State Pier in Portland with “Guns, Whistles, and Trumpets”."

Poland Spring Preservation Society

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Music in Maine - Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840

"Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Colonel Freeman McGilvery (1823-1864) of Stockton…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"With this incredible momentum, by May 1819 the question of separation went into governmental review. It was agreed that if separation should pass in…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"During the gubernatorial elections in the spring of 1795, Lincoln, Cumberland, and York counties voted upon an additional ballot measure regarding…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"Brother Arnold Hadd of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester said in 2021, there is “nothing more difficult to sing than a Shaker…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"Handcrafted in torched silk/poly blend, velvet, jersey and accented with glass beads and metal bells, this jacket creates a rustling and ringing…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"Cody performed for ten years at Poland Spring Inn in her fifties, recorded Hopeless Woman with her sons Lenny Breau and Denny, Breau and sang often…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"Deering in 1866 on Spring Island in Biddeford near Bradbury Dam. J.G. Deering was eventually renamed J.G. Deering & Son Company once Joseph G."

Biddeford Mills Museum

A historic mill museum dedicated to creating exhibits that will educate the community and highlight mill history; as a research collection to assist the public in locating information on the mill's buildings, history and employees; and to ensure the story of Biddeford's economic and industrial revolution remains relevant and accessible to diverse audiences.

Lubec, Maine - Team Members

"… Lubec, ME 04652-0422 (207) 733-2997 Fall/Winter/Spring (207) 733-2197 Summer http://www.mccurdyssmokehouse.org Lubec Memorial Library 55 Water…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… at Seward’s Neck (North Lubec) during the spring smelt run, gathered sweet grass and harvested shellfish, the remains of which have been discovered…"

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"They had the best stock and most business in the spring and summer. The House of Crafts and Flowers sells flowers, jewelry, and craft materials."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"It is estimated as of spring 2009 that the church will require a 1.8 million dollar repair for it to be functional."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Beginning in the spring of 1816, town meetings on Islesboro included discussions of separation from the State of Massachusetts."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… Native America and Indigenous Studies, 1.1 (Spring 2014), 49-64. Carroll, Francis M. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Each season they carried out different rituals. Spring - They would use tree bark that was peeled from trees to make containers, wigwam sheathing…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"In the spring of 1795 Mr. Knight returned to his land with some workers, or two of his sons, burned some of the felled trees in preparation of a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… not a nursing home, so it was repaired in the spring of 1956 and on April 1, they were ready to accept patients."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Spring gives birth to the many wild animals that frequent the hills, valleys, and woods that make up Lincoln’s 76.8 square miles: black bear…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin in Spanish cloak, Bangor, 1846

"… was a very appropriate garment for me." In the spring of 1846, he bought the stove pipe hat, which had just come into fashion."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"The building was stocked and opened in the spring of 1892. John Scales died in 1923. His son Charles Scales passed away in 1934."