Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 2 of 2

"Often ships from other states, like Boston, would arrive with goods for Hallowell. The wharf played an important role in Hallowell's shipping and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… built in 1852-1853 and designed by John Towle of Boston, also was known as Central Congregational Church."

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 3 of 3

"Designed by Boston dressmaker W.H. Bigelow, the garment is trimmed throughout with colorful hand-embroidered floral sprays, and chenille bobble…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Boston and Bangor Steamboat Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"John D. Towle of Boston designed the Italianate structure. Martin wrote of the building of the church, "Land being high and the society being in…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The small farm buildings, used to store ice through the summer, were recognized by their thick, insulated walls and few windows."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The small farm buildings, used to store ice through the summer, were recognized by their thick, insulated walls and few windows."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Boston and Bangor Steamboat Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along…"

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

"Wise of Boston arranged the event. He said the balloon was about 30 feet tall when inflated. When the balloon went up, he wrote, "the sight was so…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"Ships were sent down to Boston to collect even more clothes. All the cloth was then transported to the Crosby Paper Mill in Hampden, Maine."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… regularly from the wharf on the Penobscot to Boston. A ticket was only $6.00! Horse-drawn wagons were often lined up all the way from the river to…"

Norway Memorial Library

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Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"His grandfather was an “Indian” in the Boston Tea Party. His father, Nicholas Sr., was married to Sarah Hammond, daughter of Benjamin Hammond."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… On February 1 the Herald quoted a January 21st Boston Globe headline, “Food Fast Vanishing in Snowbound Town.” The Globe wrote that Lubeckers were…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… to London, another to Santo Domingo and three to Boston. This was barely 30 years after Somes's arrival."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… from today: no nearby doctors, hospitals, grocery stores or department stores. Long distance communication occurred by written letter and mail."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Muzzrole, from microfilm in the Boston Public Library. Copied from the internet, January 20, 2013, by Lorraine Robichaud Legere."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… the store he operated at Newbury Neck came from Boston, New York and other ports in ships which Coggins owned."

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… and lots of education, some of which was from Boston Dental School, to back him up. He eased the pain of Jack’s toothache in no time at all."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"The Boston Symphony was playing regularly by the Bar Harbor Club pool, and traveling theater companies were visiting the village."

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"… corn and potatoes in markets as far away as Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The real problem was getting the crops to market because the roads…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"… loaded onto barges to be shipped to New York and Boston. Sometimes the barges were towed away from the wharf by a pulley and cable set into a small…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Elijah Dix (for whom Dixfield is named) of Boston, was authorized to build the first grist mill, the first saw mills and develop the water power that…"

Seashore Trolley Museum

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