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Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"Shipbuilding Jordan Gardner, Nick Hanley & Grant Bowen Shipbuilding Hewing Axe, Shipyard. Hallowell, ca. 1850'sCourtesy of Sumner A."

Historic Hallowell - Row House

"Row House Row House (1846). Here lived some of Hallowell's early textile workers. Built by Isaac Gage of Augusta, this Federal-style worker's…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"Hallowell Floods Hallowell Flood 1870Hubbard Free Library Hallowell Flood 1896Hubbard Free Library The Hall-Dale 7th Grade, of…"

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"Energy Stickney & Page Dam, Cascade, Hallowell, 1871Hubbard Free Library Industrial Revolution - Hallowell Energy In the Mid/Late 1800’s In…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"Transportation Cotton Mill, Academy Street, Hallowell, ca. 1885Hubbard Free Library Cotton was delivered to the Cotton Mill on the Kennebec…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand Hains Ledge Quarry, Lithgow Hill, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream Jake Allen, Ethan Ballew & Avery Page McClench Machine Shop, Hallowell, 1879Courtesy of Sumner A."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"Hallowell Ice Storm Poem Hallowell Ice Storm Poem By Clio Barr Innocent, raw raindrops were the prelude, landing sneakily on branch and pavement."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell

"Ice Storm In Hallowell Ice Storm In Hallowell by Ashley Boerner and Tiffiny McCollett I don’t like ice storms that much."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… so worried that the creation of the Surry Fire Department, which had been controversial at earlier town meetings, solidly supported the formation…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… Champlain Society member, secretary, and Botany Department chair Edward Lothrup Rand published Flora of Mount Desert with John C."

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… X By the mid 1980s, a municipal office and fire department had been built near the school and after that, the town continued to invest in…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot

"… caused often required the assistance of fire departments from the various southern Maine communities."

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

"… by the facilities director for the school department. Luckily, students are no longer required to play a role in the process of keeping the school…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"A year later, more people joined the fire department. It was now up to 25 men. When 1954 came, the town had built a two-bay fire station."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"Strong's Fire Department Fires were always (and still are) disastrous and frightening events. John Rounds was an ardent crusader for the organization…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - About Us

"… Meredith Knowles Helen Atwood New Portland Fire Department- Kip Poulin Orono Special Collections department- Fogler Library at UMO About MCHP The…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"By the time the fire department arrived, after 4 am, the "roof was undulating like an inflated balloon" (page five)."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"There was another fire as well; this took place in 1895. This fire was very destructive to the City of Bath."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"Edward L. Rand headed up the Botanical Department. Samuel Eliot documented the meteorology, and Charles Eliot focused on geology."

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…"

North Yarmouth Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"… was severely threatened, in 1957 the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) began a twenty-year process of acquiring the marsh…"

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…"