Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory

"Large round blocks of cheese were stored in round wooden boxes. These boxes were often used as pantry storage boxes. Return to Student Research"

Hose 5 Fire Museum

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"All were important in a world where wooden boxes were used instead of cardboard. This was Hall’s world."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"Wabanaki made do with wooden crates and boxes using them as seats, tables, and shelves for storing foodstuffs, cooking utensils, basketmaking tools…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"Barker Lumber and Box Co. was another such enterprise. Guilford Lumber Company Mill, ca. 1900Guilford Historical Society Guilford Lumber…"

Maine Irish Heritage Center

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"The process had a ramp, and they would use wooden boards to give the ice blocks a direction into the stacks."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… Herring: 1990 and 1896 Sluicing the herring into wooden tanks. Frank Van Riper, photo X The words of a careful investigator, Ansley Hall, tell…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"This exceptional 198' wire suspension span with wooden towers and a wooden deck system was very likely patterned after the similar bridge constructed…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"They sold beaded crafts, wooden checkers, and many more craft supplies. Drapers Mill was a supplier of box boards to other mills."

Thomaston Historical Society

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Davistown Museum

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Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"The Minto Toothpick Company purchased a local wooden box mill and converted it to a toothpick mill. A grist mill and feed store changed hands from M."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… her music books, including the hymnals, in a wooden box later found in her attic. Mary Ann June 17, 1911Surry Historical Society These two…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… in the water, were placed specially constructed wooden boxes called accumulators, for collecting the gold content of the seawater that flowed…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… and lumber led to the boom period of 19th-century wooden shipbuilding. Wars, national economic upswings and downturns, changes in modes of…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… grew -- sawmills that provided the shooks for wooden cases that held the cans ready for shipment; transporters; boat builders; suppliers of…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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