Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"In the 1960's all chain stores left Bath and went to Cook's Corner and Brunswick. The purpose of the Old City Hall was to house the city government…"

Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades

"He invented a tire hook chain, a rim stretcher and a temple joint for eyeglasses. That is how W.A. Brown was a part of Lincoln, Maine and what he did…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan Then and Now

"… buildings have been torn down for parking lots or chain stores, but we needed to make a short movie on this."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… renewal project in the early 1960s, Sears and its chain stores in Bath were left without enough facilities and parking."

Stockholm Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13

"… around the outside that allowed a rope or a chain to hold the barrels. Even as late as 1950 some farmers loaded barrels by hand."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Along with these national chain stores, two local department stores (Senter’s and Bath Department Store), several men’s clothing stores and beauty…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Patented respectively in 1846 and 1851, chain stitch and lock stitch sewing machines were initially confined to commercial use, making items such as…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… stopped and stripped some basswood bark to make a chain (the tool used to measure land) that was one rod in length."

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

"1950s video of logging on the Chain Lakes from the collection of Roger Morrison The first thing to be built was a flume to send lumber along to the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"… family would have been dropped 40% and a whole chain of the family would not exist, including the fact that some of us would not exist as a result…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"Booms were large logs attached together by a chain. The booms circled the logs, not letting them escape."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… are symbolized in their logo by three unbroken chain links, as well as values such as “Visit the sick, Relieve the distress, Bury the dead, and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… ship To iron work for Sett’s Mills To mending a chain To repairing an ax for ship Sally To repairing a Marlin Spike, 2 augers, a crow bar To…"

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

"… stopped and stripped some basswood bark to make a chain. Using a very large boulder as the corner, they measured out six lots and drew lots for…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"And so until we got a chain saw and cut up those trees we couldn’t go anywhere. It was just totally blocked, and another neighbor’s tree fell across…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Boom Chain, Guilford, 1908Guilford Historical Society In late September of 1909, the boom strung across the river at Guilford Manufacturing Company…"

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

"… presented him with a massive solid silver watch-chain, as a small token of their appreciation of him as a man and master workman."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The innovative founders in 1776, lacking a “chain”, the tool used to measure land, staked out property lines using basswood bark, The “men measured…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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