Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"The ball sailed up in the air, eyes following its path, heading right for the hoop. The buzzer went off and swish, the basketball sunk through the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

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

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… early April to late November, ocean-going vessels sailed up the Kennebec, forty-six miles from the open Atlantic, bringing Pennsylvania flour, West…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"At one time he owned more wooden sailing vessels than anyone in the United States. There are several stories about how the settlement of Guinea…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"His company then sailed to the larger island of Islesboro, encountered more French and natives who also fled by boat."

Historic Hallowell - Transportation Challenge

"The Jeremiah T. Smith, pictured below drying sails at granite wharf, was named after a Connecticut oyster king and skippered by Captain Lyman W."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"With great difficulty, he managed to sail his ship to Crosby’s Long Wharf in Hampden for repairs. Having taken Castine on September 1, 1814, British…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… Desert and was brought to this island when a sail boat chanced to visit those places This was very inconvenient to the settlers and often the…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"The ships also needed sails so that they could move. As they progressed in technology, the ships relied more on oil and an engine than wind power."

Blue Hill, Maine - Friendship vessel, Blue Hill, 1907

"… Blue Hill Public Library Description A sailing vessel named Friendship in Blue Hill. View additional information about this item on the…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"They had sailed from the Plymouth Plantation with a cargo of corn, the product of one of the new colony’s first successful harvests, hoping to…"

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… the 19th century -- Maine’s magnificent era under sail -- came to an end, Hallowell’s heyday in maritime commerce also drew to a close."

Historic Hallowell - Ship Parts

"Sails were made by long, thin strips of cloth that were woven together by hand (until the invention of the sewing machine.) Anchors were commonly…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"For more that forty years, Agry sailed from Boston to England, France, and Mediterranean ports.  Agry’s wife accompanied him on many of his voyages…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… Cotton Mill on the Kennebec river to Hallowell by sailing ship. Once the ship was at the dock, the cotton was brought up to the mill by horse and…"

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place ~ Once Again

"… 1884, nearing the end of a 40-year career under sail, he wrote to the Hallowell Register in praise of his home town: They may call Hallowell a…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… and huge quantities of cloth for the masts and sails. To construct the mast, they would get large wood and make a long and thick, pole-like object…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… by mistake? In 1820, Captain John Bradstreet was sailing when nasty weather forced him to port his ship in Randolph."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… by mistake? In 1820, Captain John Bradstreet was sailing when nasty weather forced him to port his ship in Randolph."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Bangor, 1849

"… to board the bark Suliote on January 24, 1849, sailing from Bangor to California and the Gold Rush."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Quarrying

"Boats under sail (in the 1890s) or steam boats, soon thereafter, would come into Burnt Coat Harbor and collect brick sized cut stone."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… the balloon struck an upper current and began to sail off bearing easterly." His 6-year-old daughter, Ada, commented, while the balloon was at its…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… spring of 1762 when Joseph Wood and John Roundy sailed "downeast" from the Boston colony to a sheltering bay at the foot of the blue hill."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… the 17th century, when potential settlers first sailed up the pretty little bay searching for a safe harbor to start a new life."