Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… they met one night a week after working a 12-hour day, and wrote compositions, essays, reports and poems, performed dialogs, enacted scenes from…"

Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"Q How long was the power out? A 13 days. Q Were many roads open? A No, many roads were blocked by fallen trees."

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"Hurricane Carol came just 1 day before Hurricane Edna. Hurricane Edna was not nearly as bad as Carol."

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… 1852 went to their deaths”, says Bakers, "On that day the bark Anna of Bremen sent a boat to investigate a capsized schooner off Bermuda in a…"

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… integrity through the 20th century to the present day. Events in her history point up the fact that Hallowell contributed to the economic, social…"

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"… morning chores and getting ready for the new day. Some people were already working. The people of Hallowell were not expecting a morning…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… of Swan’s Islanders from the early homesteading days until the present, was staunchly self-sufficient."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… Free Library This flood from the black and white days, was one of worst floods recorded in Maine's history."

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… included 10,000 entries over a period of 9,965 days. In sometimes cryptic entries she recorded her actions as a midwife that resulted in the births…"

Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"… with many of the leading scientists of the day. Dr. Vaughan stayed abreast of developments in medical research and through his connections in…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… bank reveals pieces of chalk and flint to this day imported from Dover, England to try to make a go of the sandpaper business."

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"… Captain Aurthur Moore, Harbor Master  In earlier days, ships were made of wood, but later were made of metal like iron."

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"That’s still happening a lot these days. In the homes, their life must’ve been easier, though. They would have different methods of cooking."

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"On a regular work day for them, they would wear pants and long sleeved shirts for the cold weather. The paper industry relied on the logging industry…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… a house for the elderly and remains that to this day. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library In April 1890, the Cotton…"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… tended to earn between $1.75 and $2.00 per day. Three thousand five hundred men were employed in Maine's granite industry and their produce brought…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"That was a sad day for us boys because you used to hitch your sleds to the ice wagons when they made the run up the hill empty, you know, after they…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"So in a way, it was like modern-day stocks. In the early 1850’s, Hallowell built a railroad, and also in the 1900’s, the first automobile came into…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… history, the island received newspapers the same day that they were issued. The steamboat made a daily trip year-round from Swan’s Island to…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"After three days of freedom, Swan set out to turn himself back in, but died on the street. A world away, the Swan’s Island settlers had taken matters…"

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

"That was a sad day for us boys because you used to hitch your sleds to the ice wagons when they made the run up the hill empty, you know, after they…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Eventually all other schools shut down, including Blue Hill Academy, and the only two left standing were the Consolidated School - which served the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"He had to ride to school on horseback and his home was 6 miles away from the school. He taught 15 students in his first year of teaching."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"One day, at lunchtime, she and her bothers decided to roll down a hill in barrels. They did that because they had nothing else to do when they had…"