Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Ice cutting industries, specifically Gardiner ice cutting industry cut ice off of the Kennebec River, during the cold winter seasons when the ice was…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"A marker scratched a line for the next cut. The plow was run one way over an area and then over the other at right angles, plowing out a checkerboard…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"A marker scratched a line for the next cut. The plow was run one way over an area and then over the other at right angles, plowing out a checkerboard…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"Biddeford and Saco were well known for ice harvesting, granite cutting, and cotton textile manufacturing."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec

"… of schooners and steamboats, hazardous ice cutting, shipping, whaling, and also the waterfront."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"“Once there was enough ice for the horses then you would cut holes and set up the loading platform and wait for it to freeze in solid."

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"Largest Granite Slab cut from Hains Ledge Quarry, Hallowell, ca. 1895Hubbard Free Library Before derrick cranes and steam winches large pieces were…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"Cut velvet two-piece dress, ca. 1885Maine Historical Society Ida Bowles' wedding dress, ca.1886Maine Historical Society In August 1882…"

Historic Hallowell - In the Beginning - Raw Materials - Quarrying

"… Many of America's finest public monuments were cut from Hallowell granite and sculpted by her artisans Hallowell viewed from Chelsea…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Bus Service, Presque Isle, 1957

"… In 1957, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad started cutting back on rail passenger service in Northern Maine."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 4 of 17

"Biddeford’s granite and slate cutting was a crucial part of their economy and even helped support the build of the Western Railroad in 1872."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"Cascade Pond - Vaughan HomesteadHubbard Free Library Once there was enough ice for the horses then you would cut holes and set up the loading…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The seeds were potatoes from the year before. The potatoes would be on a rack and as they went by, Edwena would cut them into four pieces."

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… was actually more time consuming than the actual cutting as the tree was not simply dropped as a tree being cut for timber would have been."

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"The complex included a business office, two stone-cutting sheds, a modeling and sculpture studio, carpenter's shop, blacksmith's shop, stable, wagon…"

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"… Many of America's finest public monuments were cut from Hallowell granite and sculpted by her artisans, but why stone from the banks of the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"… to adjust the front of the digger so that it will cut into the row at the right height. Later tractors had levers powered by a hydraulic pump that…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today

"… Society Today Thomaston continues to ride on the cutting edge of boatbuilding technology. A continuance of the former Charles A."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 6 of 17

"The Union blockades cut off the export of cotton which caused extreme rises in bids from English buyers."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"… Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Ice cutting on the Saco River, Biddeford-Saco, 1908McArthur Public Library The ice harvesting…"

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

"… years, after all the timber around the lake was cut, the lumbermen began cutting around Folsom and Upper Ponds, sending the wood down the streams…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Slave whip, 1864

"… "many hundred pages on southern life and examined cuts of southern life." He also talked to a former slave, Frank Davis, who "followed the 26th…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 2 of 3

"… by use for daily wear, dyeing for mourning, and cutting down for children. Two, well-worn and faded, thin cotton print dresses span the 1830s-1840s."

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Wire mills still exist today, but workers use high-tech machines to cut the wire and shrink it to a certain diameter."