Maine Memory Network

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

"Mr. Green was a Presque Isle merchant for 37 years. He also opened two other stores, one in Houlton and the other in Danforth."

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

""Lincoln Department Store," Lincoln Historical Society: the 1997-1998 Lecture Programs. Lincoln, ME: Lincoln Historical Society, 1998, 63-64, Print."

Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell

"Department awards were awarded to the fire department with the best kept trucks, pumps, or anything along those lines."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3

"… yardage could be found in the new burgeoning city department stores, including Peck's in Lewiston, Libby's in Portland, and in small town dry-goods…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"For safety purposes your hospitals and fire departments and places like that had generators, so they were able to stay open and be helpful."

Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century

"In 1904, Mandel's Department Store in New York advertised a high quality fashionable ready-made suit priced at $25.00 (approximately $700.00 in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"The Lincoln Clothing Company was a department store, visible as the first full building on the left."

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

"… today housing the Town Offices, the Town Police Department and a commercial store. The second floor contains a hall and meeting room used for town…"

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

"It was a popular department store used by many citizens of Bath. Bath Town Hall, ca. 1908Patten Free Library The earlier building at the Grants…"

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"The exposed glass plate negatives were sent back to the "factory" in Belfast where they were processed, printed and sent back to the general stores…"

Historic Hallowell - Affects of the Blizzard of 1952

"… a lot of important belongings like their homes, stores, trees, animals, lack of food because you couldn’t leave your house, and a bunch of other…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… the Ryder School located across from Durkee’s Store, later moved to become part of the store. District Six School, known as the Sprague School, was…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Links to Presque Isle Pastimes

"… Solar System Model Saturn X The Francis Malcolm Science Center Francis Malcolm Science Center X Presque Isle Recreation Department"

Historic Hallowell - The Information Call Script

"GROVER RUNNING OUTTA HIS STORE, AND I NOTICED A LITTLE BOY TRAPPED INSIDE HIS STORE, AFTER THE CYCLONE CAME THERE WERE DOCTORS THERE, FROM THERE…"

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Grover!s Grocery Store was struck with a mass of rubble. Little Vigril White was trapped inside the store when this happening occurred."

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."

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"The Cyclone of 1895 Grover's Store Downtown Hallowell X Any cyclone is scary, especially if it happens in your hometown."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 2 of 2

"… used the ferry to get to schools, jobs, and stores. People that didn’t live in Chelsea or Hallowell had to find their own means of transportation…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… the children of the town, for whom he also had a store of broken--and must we add, to be truthful--very dirty candy in his pockets."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"… garments such as those advertised in the New York store Gimbles' 1915 catalogue, straight tailored skirts, and similarly skirted dresses, some…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"… would run down a ramp, to be set by tons and stored until the summer. The process had a ramp, and they would use wooden boards to give the ice…"

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"… buildings have gotten a beating, including the Store owned by Leigh and Wingate who had lost 300 barrels of flour."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… And, as the book Agreeable Situations (Brick Store Museum, 1987) records, in about 1800, transfer printed depictions of Portland’s Hannah Robinson…"