Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… Society & Museum Clam Harvesting Although the tools are simple (a metal rake, metal bucket and onion bags), clam digging is hard, backbreaking…"

Abbe Museum

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Wilson Museum

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Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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Dixfield Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"One of the other tools they used were axes which came in all kinds of shapes and sizes. The bigger and thicker ones were used for the softest logs…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Just behind the Mall along the riverbank stone tools and stone boiling rocks spanning the last 3,500 years are plainly visible."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Click to view Salt Marsh Tools Salt hay continued to be important to the people of Scarborough well into the 1800s, as it became a source of income…"

Ste. Agathe Historical Society

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Stetson Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"All of these technological tools are essential for teachers and students on a daily basis. Discipline Olivia, grade 6 Scottow's Hill Rural…"

Prince Memorial Library

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"Maps Maps are a powerful tool for representing an area visually or graphically; they symbolically depict relationships of objects in the area."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… cloth, wine, sugar loaves, molasses, rum, shoes, tools, different types of food that they did not already have, and sometimes ships brought things…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… formal training and using regular carpenter’s tools is astonishing.” Litchfield retired as a station agent at Candia, New Hampshire in 1941 and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… a big part of the school day and are an important tool in learning. Some classrooms even have SMART boards, interactive whiteboards that combine a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… mittens on or the frost stuck their hands to the tools. Just a little wheat was raised and a few potatoes."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… bowling pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles. While water provided the power, the forests and fields provided the raw materials…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"These tools were very critical for lumberjacks. Lumber Capital There were many key factors that led Bangor to become the lumber capital of the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

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