Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"… Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library Books & Manuscripts Baker, William Avery, 1973, “A Maritime History of Bath, Maine…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten Free Library Bath Opera House reopening, 1926Maine Maritime Museum In the late 19th and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"1875Patten Free Library Do you know what a merchant is? A merchant is a buyer or seller for goods for profit, like one who carries on a trade."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten Free Library Sagadahock House, Bath, 1894Patten Free Library The Sagadahock House was built…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"… Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library, the Bath Historical Society, and the Black House teachers at Bath Middle School were…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"… at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten Free Library Construction of Davenport Memorial City Hall, Bath, 1928Maine Maritime Museum…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"94 Front Street By Kyle Hietala The Building Front Street, in Bath, Maine has been one of the most densely packed business areas throughout the…"

Historic Hallowell - In the Beginning - Raw Materials - Quarrying

"1865Hubbard Free Library Hains Ledge Quarry, Lithgow Hill, Hallowell, ca. 1890Hubbard Free Library Communities grow where nature provides raw…"

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"1865Hubbard Free Library Many of America's finest public monuments were cut from Hallowell granite and sculpted by her artisans, but why stone from…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"After time, the jammed ice under the bridge became to overwhelming for the bridge to hold because of the building pressure."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 2 of 2

"1917Hubbard Free Library The Chelsea bridge collapsed in 1870. Then in 1874, the Ferry Service was established by the City of Hallowell and Kennebec…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"The arch bridge was completed in 1930, replacing the wooden bridge that was mounted on the wire mill dam."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner Stone Bridge over Vaughan Brook. Vaughan Brook tumbled into the Kennebec on the north side of Sheppard's…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"When the new Chelsea bridge was built, some big boats couldn't get through. So in time, the waterfront was used less and less."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"1936, Maine Flood Disaster of Friday, the 13th of March, 1936 Kennebec Journal, Steven Cartwright, Hubbard Free plans renovations Maine Sunday…"

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Arch Bridge, Vaughan Woods, Hallowell, ca. 1932Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner Later, the Hallowell Light and Power Company…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Rumford Falls Bridge, the Rangeley Lakes Railroad bridge, and the Ridlonville bridge were washed away."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… the Backingdom Road went across the Thad White Bridge, past York Hill, and on to Poplar Hill. There was a county road that went from Dixfield up to…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"In 1924 a fine concrete bridge was finally built over the Madawaska Stream in Stockholm to replace the wooden one washed out in the flood of 1923."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"1936, Maine Flood Disaster of Friday, the 13th of March, 1936 Kennebec Journal, Steven Cartwright, Hubbard Free plans renovations Maine Sunday…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners, aquaducts etc., etc., etc."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… and indoor card and board games, especially Bridge, Canasta and jig saw puzzles. St. Mary of the Isles and Christ Church provided places of worship…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"When the Waldo-Hancock Bridge opened in 1931, this marvel of engineering provided a much easier mode of transportation at a time when more and more…"