Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"Both pot-ash and pearl-ash were worth more than any other product a farmer could produce, and large quantities were shipped from Hallowell until the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - About Us

"About Us Up from the ashes: Swan's Island has learned to appreciate its historic resources after seeing them threatened."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"-Opulence to Ashes: Bar Harbor’s Gilded Century, by Lydia B. Vandenbergh & Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Jordan Pond House staff, ca."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"… Schools Like The Phoenix Rising Out Of The Ashes By: Rex Webb, 7th & 8th Grade Social Studies Teacher and 8th Grade Students Piscataquis…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… of a fireplace screen were recovered from the ashes. Fireplace HardwareFarmington Historical Society The influence of the Titcomb family is…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… officials guided the city’s Phoenix rise from the ashes, and sought to incorporate a centralized park along the banks of the Kenduskeag Stream to…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… Pulp and Paper and began to manufacture “black ash” or sodium carbonate pulp. From 1899 to 1908, the mill built its reputation on the manufacturing…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… a variety of wood, “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"It is thought that the smoke and ash created a “volcanic winter.” For the next 5 years, many of the Farmington settlers were disheartened and left…"

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

"… is to be sustained [principally] by oak and brown ash piles…. If ice freshets do not disturb them, and fire and other forces leave them alone, the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… for clams, pick sweet grass for baskets and split ash for containers. This practice continued into the 1930s and ‘40s, until it gradually died out."