Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Between 1792 and 1891, 133 wooden ocean-going sailing vessels were built in Blue Hill. Captain John W. Kane, Blue Hill, ca."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"In the late 19th century, pre-existing wooden stores were gradually replaced with brick construction, creating the historic downtown streets one sees…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"The architectural style of the 2.5 story building is Italianate. The roof is a hipped roof. That architectural style was rarely seen in this area at…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"The three-story building with a bell tower is 56 feet wide and 82 feet deep. It is a fireproof structure made of limestone and bricks with a granite…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"It is a large three-story brick edifice. The building has a gambrel roof with several corners and dentils."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"The fire, leaping the street, caught on the wooden building across Front Street. Gas tanks exploded and walls fell every couple of minutes, causing…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"The Church Block is a three-story building. Details on the Church Block that are still there are women's faces cast into the iron columns."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Indeed, the building of schooners carried Bath through the nationwide depression and into relative prosperity in the 1880s and 1890s."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"By 1868, a three story addition was attached to Mr. Ryder’s boarding house to accomodate the increasing demand."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… by the Fox family in the 1790s, the two story wooden hip-roofed building housed the grocery business of Daniel Fox and his son Daniel Fox, Jr."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"The first floor would hold the main entrance which opened to a corridor that would run the length of the building."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"One can imagine A.C. Savage and/or his neighbors fashioning those logs sometime in late 1854 or early 1855 in time to build around them a new home to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… of a garden, and used others to build a two-story cabin with two rooms on the first floor to be used as a dwelling and a storage room upstairs."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"In the original location of the wooden building, a better brick building was constructed to serve as the new academy."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… as a bowling alley, merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, wooden swings, dancing pavilion, open-air stage casino, picnic spots along the shore, and even…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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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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