Keywords: brickmaker
Item 14327
Isaac Barker, Houlton, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 18459
Mrs. Issac Barker, Houlton, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
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Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Building Boom, early 19th century
"… of all types were on the rise – lime quarrying, brickmaking, shipbuilding, export and import shipping, carpentry and trading."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works
"… Cyrus Eaton, Knox “went largely into the brickmaking business, near the water below the upper wharf” and his wastebook clearly demonstrates that…"
