Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"Gentle slopes led down to the deep and sheltered channels on tidal waterways. Timbers could be laid down on the shores for ships and then easily…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"… VIDEO: WGME, News Channel 13 1987, Flood of 1987 NEWSPAPERS: Bangor Daily News, Friday, April 1st, 1988, Jeff Strout, Joan Smith, T.J. Tremble…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… dam at the head of the Falls; digging a canal to channel waters and pulpwood to the mills’ interior; and a lower dam to form a large holding basin…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3

"… collection’s only example of the famous, classic, Channel-style jacket. Near the end of her career in the 1960s and 1970s, Chanel earned acclaim…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"This channel, or canal, became known as the New River. The Dunstan shipyard was at the end of the man-made canal."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… completed, temporary trestlework into the channel led to dredging and fabrication of the unusual piers."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… Full Steam Ahead." Maine News, Weather, Sports Channel 6 NBC Portland | WCSH6.com | Portland, ME. Web. 6 Apr. 2010."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"… VIDEO: WGME, News Channel 13 1987, Flood of 1987 NEWSPAPERS: Bangor Daily News, Friday, April 1st, 1988, Jeff Strout, Joan Smith, T.J. Tremble…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"Also, a channel of water on the island, formally known as 'the slucieway,' provided a prime spot to build mills and factories."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"The booms were used to channel the logs (keeping them together) down the river to the mills. The spikes anchored the logs or timbers together in the…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… been landed the Cumberland staggered across the channel to the Atlantic Works, where she will be repaired."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… period (7,500 -6,500 years ago) include full channeled gouges and early forms of pecked and ground stone axes some of which were found along the…"

St. Croix Historical Society

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Waterpower generated from the middle channel of the sluiceway supported these mills. In 1811, a milldam was built making it possible for an increase…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… voice was equally as good, and Amanda then channeled her energy into Lillian’s career. Amanda and her daughters worked at menial jobs to support…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… ice-breakers are being constructed in the channel of the river a few rods above the bridge, which will smash the ice-cakes into such small…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The Lubec Channel Light was commissioned in 1890. Shipwrecks led to the construction of a lifesaving station at Carrying Place Cove in 1874."