Maine Memory Network

A. Putt Bennett, Linneus, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Linneus Media: Photographic print

Myron E. Bennett, Sanford, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Bennett property, N.E. Shore, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Grace E. Bennett Use: Summer Dwelling

195-197 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bennett McClearn Co. Use: Store Building

The Mount, Lenox, MA, 1980-1999

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980–1999 Location: Lenox Client: The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"followed with his family. The three Bennett boys also arrived about this time and during the summer were busy raising corn and wheat and helping with…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"… of the towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth: Bennett, Thomas C. Vital records from town reports of the Town of Cumberland, Maine: 1893-1960."

Being a woman Union member was a challenge in the paper mill
by Cindy Bennett

I worked in the paper mills and for the Union during the 1987 strike.

Classroom Time Capsule
by Anna Bennett

On March 12, 2020, I left my classroom not knowing I wouldn't return again for months.