Keywords: Stone workers
Item 25986
Quarry Workers At Mount Waldo, ca. 1860
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: circa 1860 Location: Frankfort Media: Photographic print
Item 25987
Quarry Workers At Mount Waldo, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: circa 1850 Location: Frankfort Media: Photographic Copy of Stereo Card
Exhibit
Maine's natural resources -- granite, limestone and slate in particular -- along with its excellent ports made it a leader in mining and production of the valuable building materials. Stone work also attracted numerous skilled immigrants.
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history
"The stone was drilled, blasted, and lifted out of the pit. One man “motions” sprang up wherever there was a small field of stone to be carved by an…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Quarrying
"Quarry rails, Swan's Island, ca. 1900Swan's Island Historical Society These stones were known as the "New York" or "Philadelphia" sized paving…"
Story
My 41 year career in Maine paper mills
by Mike Luciano
Generations of paper workers, families, immigrants, jobs in the mill, labor strikes, and changes
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
