Maine Memory Network

Abbe Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Using tools made of stone, bone, wood, and natural plant and animal fibers, they harvested an incredibly diverse range of mammals, birds and fish…"

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."

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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… in Topsham to get supplies, axes, saws and other tools to begin the hard job of clearing the land. They came back to The Sandy River area two weeks…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Each workman furnished his own tools, all of which were sold at the store of William Coggins. The Civil War With an 1860 population of 1319 (the…"

Maine State Museum

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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…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… including cider mills, axes, scythes, and other tools. Wood products including window sashes, caskets, shovel handles continued to be manufactured…"

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…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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