Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"… famous "The Arrow Shirt Man" advertisements, as well as the Saturday Evening Post covers, featuring sporty young women and men wearing shirts."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as “The Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase from the late Colony of New-Plymouth,” The…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… was your job? What did you do during the day? S: Well, we had these tables where we worked. There was a carrier, we called it, and the flakes with…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… you remember about the thirties? Woodrow Wilson: Well we had to be very careful with what we used and paper good and food and so forth and had to…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"The students did quite well, and I was very glad they could visit the First Parish Meetinghouse and do the Museum in the Streets."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"Biddeford was well-represented in various industries, including ice harvesting and granite quarrying."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… Massachusetts, they chose a site on Mill Island well known to Maine's Native Americans for thousands of years."

Lewiston Public Library

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Islesboro Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… Bay, and by 1658, Kittery, York, Saco, Wells and Cape Porpoise (Kennebunkport) had all submitted to Massachusetts authority.[1] As the population…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"Governor Bernard’s choice of these two men to be founders of the township would serve him well.” More Permanent Settlers Arrive"

Historic Hallowell - Classical and Scientific Academy

"It was a boarding as well as day school. Its board of trustees and management, some of them clergymen, were affiliated with the Congregational…"

Historic Hallowell - Our Journey Home

"… the most unlikely of places -- a wilderness area well inland on the Kennebec River. The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Welcome

"We will continue to work with local students as well as future teachers at University of Maine Farmington to teach the skills of working with primary…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Culture

"… the cultural hub of the town of Farmington as well. When the money was raised to build the "new" library building, one of the architectural…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Wilder's Jewelry

"… Isle MIddle School Images X Ike Wilder, a well-known Presque Isle jeweler, was born in 1905 in San Francisco, California."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Marion Sanborn

"… responsibilities with the animals? Marion: Well, I would help take them down of the pasture and take them out of the pasture."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today

"is well known in the custom-boatbuilding world, and continues to produce a line of high-end boats, which uphold Thomaston’s reputation of…"

City of Portland Department of Public Works

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Phillips Historical Society

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United Society of Shakers

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Lubec Historical Society

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Western Maine Cultural Alliance

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