Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men

"… now Hallowell were shipbuilders from southern New England who soon realized that all you needed to build ships on the Kennebec was a stand of…"

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"As he passes through its long, parallel streets or up and down its sloping hillsides, he will still see the handsome, spacious houses of the early…"

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"The Kennebec River waters have taken over the shore lines and even some houses have been considered ruins in what is now left of the shores of…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"The Red Cross spent $30,000 on operating shelters for the elderly or for people who were put out of there homes due to damage from the storm."

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

"… Harbor Library Harbor Cottage, a two-story New Englander styled house with an ell on the South side, was built and located just uphill from A.C.’s…"

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… was Jacob Abbott’s open secret....here the New England passion for self-improvement, as it was understood by the plainer folk, found its completest…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"Obviously most of the schools in New England were closed. People were trapped in their cars, cold and hungry."

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… worker, William Rich, was born in Cornwall, England on December 23,1833 and died in Hallowell on May 12, 1915."

National Archives at Boston

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"In 1926 the Lawrence Portland Cement Company took over the business, and within a year began the construction of a new lime plant and office building."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… to Rumford Falls from their homes throughout New England and surrounding towns. They had to be accommodated with boarding houses, and the…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Maine State Museum

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Colby College Special Collections

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Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"In May of 2013 he was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. William graduated from Bowdoin College in 1962, and then went on to the Boston…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The Corporation also subsidized the fire department and police department. Eventually it provided the first street and traffic lights."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… under George Washington as Secretary of the Department of War, began acquiring large parcels of the Waldo Patent, the before-mention tract of land…"