Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome X X What do you get when you combine local history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Main and State streets, Presque Isle, 1929

"This photograph shows the Bolton Block and the businesses within in 1929. The Bolton Block was destroyed by fire in 1943."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"Each ice block is approximately 24 inches x 24 inches by 20 inches and weighs about 260 pounds. Many of these ice blocks eventually were used to cool…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Green's Department Store

"In 1988, Dana Cassidy purchased the block. The old building that was once Green’s still stands. Today the old building serves as a place for several…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2

"Sadie bought big blocks of soap and sliced them with a knife. She then took the soap and dropped it in the tub to let it dissolve and make suds."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Pendleton & Ross stand, Bangor, 1864

"… & Ross stand, formerly known as the Tainter Block, in Bangor. Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, worked for Pendleton & Ross ship chandlers…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"The war years in the city were difficult; high taxes, city debt, mill layoffs & the ensuing joblessness and poverty took their toll."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"The handsome Federal style block in the center was built for the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company in 1803-04 from plans by Alexander Parris."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Quarrying

"They were transported to and used mostly in Boston and New York City. While the quarry was functioning, boarding houses sprang up on the island to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"As many as 50,000 paving blocks would be shipped on one schooner, usually loaded by hand. Sometimes as many as 10 three-masted schooners were lined…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… churches, public buildings, and commercial blocks. Notable extant examples of his work in Portland include the West Mansion on the Western…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Men would guide blocks of ice towards the conveyor belt that lifted the ice into the ice houses for shipping later."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Men would guide blocks of ice towards the conveyor belt that lifted the ice into the ice houses for shipping later."

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… to sink the Axis!" Protecting Our Community Block Warden ArmbandBangor Historical Society After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Block Wardens…"

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"His business at one point occupied an entire city block, employed 100 production workers, and 20 hand-copiers who addressed envelopes off-site."

Lithgow Public Library

"… is constructed of gray Norridgewock granite, blocked symmetrically over the windows and entrance."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… in 1852-53 with a four story brick commercial block that burned in the Great Fire of 1866. The site is now occupied by a small park."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"In the block adjacent to Williams Brothers stood a fish market, paint shop, movie and dance hall and an ice cream shop owned by E. M. Randlett."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… A: It was pretty incredible that roads were blocked off with trees that had fallen over. And we had a couple of trees in our yard that we couldn’t…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… caught soon after, being situated next to the Block and was soon a mass of ruins. Plaisted Tannery Fire, Lincoln, 1899Lincoln Historical…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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