Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo Raynes remembrance of trip around Cape Horn

"Alonzo Raynes remembrance of trip around Cape Horn   Alonzo Raynes remembrance This newspaper clipping from an unidentified California newspaper…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"Chief Joseph Orono powder horn, ca. 1780Abbe Museum European colonization of Wabanaki Country began in the early 1600s."

Historic Hallowell - Communication

"… company produced some of the first electric horns for automobiles. They thought that the invention would work well, so they took it to an…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… in the horrendous storms in passages around Cape Horn. The sail loft they built in 1875 still stands in its original location on Water Street at…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"… proudly displays his over-the-shoulder soprano horn, a band instrument of the period. A tintype of George Allen Soule of Yarmouth shows a young man…"

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

"The guns were fired from Ft. Williams, the horns came from the 5th Maine Infantry band, and whistles were from the steamboat Calvin Austin."

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"They stayed for five years and invented the car horn. After the O’Brien Electrophone Company moved out, the Johnson Shoe Factory moved in and took…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"… ivory, bakelite, wood, metal, hard rubber, horn, shells, and glass. Carved and painted into the buttons are various designs: lines and dots…"

Abbe Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"There was no set schedule, but there was a horn on each side so the operator could hear it if he was on the opposite side of the river."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… by the train as it goes by my house and honks its horn. It is very annoying! Many times it carries wood and things to and from the mill."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"… at age 29, he died at the battle of “Little Big Horn” in Montana under the command of William Armstrong Custer."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… shipyards in South Portland, Bath and Connecticut. One or two cars drove around the village tooting their horns. That was about it. Next Page"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… 604-end Children and schools, making furniture, business slowdown, churches X   Alonzo Raynes remembrance of trip around Cape Horn"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… to make containers, wigwam sheathing, and moose horns made for calling moose. They also would plant what little food that would grow, including…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"That shed first housed a hot-air horn, then in 1868 a steam whistle, standard aural alarm of the era from factories to locomotives."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… to sea on a whaling ship that sailed around Cape Horn. He settled in California where he transported freight up the Sacramento River."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… music activities, playing the bass, violin, and horn. The Bartlett family owned a lot of property and a mill in the North Village."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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