Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"People were stuck in their houses for weeks and ran out of food, water and were without power for days or weeks."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"Tree limbs had knocked onto peoples houses and roads,damaging about everything. Like cars, and homes."

Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations

"Foundry. Dictionary.com. Unabridged. Random House, Inc.http:// dictionary.reference.com/browse/foundry (accessed: April 14, 2011) “Maineʼs First…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"After the founders constructed a meeting house at “the Fort,” a movement for the funding of the school was organized."

Historic Hallowell - The Information Call Script

"… TO KNOW WHERE YOU WERE WHEN THE CYCLONE HIT YOUR HOUSE? MELISSA: WELL I HAD JUST LEFT MY ROOM WHERE I WAS WORKING AND I HAD JUST ESCAPED INJURY."

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… document read in part: Joshua Wingate House, Union Street, Hallowell, 1968Hubbard Free Library In Hallowell, Maine, is represented a 19th…"

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"… have taken over the shore lines and even some houses have been considered ruins in what is now left of the shores of Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"Not only were they housing people in shelters but the number of Red Cross shelters activated and filled was the most in Maine history."

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"… from different wire mills to connect wires to houses and bring electricity. The electricity had a major impact in daily life in historic Hallowell…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"… though fires were few and far between because houses were made of heavy cut wood from the forest regions around Hallowell and the logs that floated…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"… on wood to heat their homes, cook food, build houses, and build ships. Ryan Sinclair's Interview with Captain Arthur Moore   The Steam and Boom…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… five in the morning and it was freezing; the house- the whole house was just freezing. We then decided that we needed some lights."

Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"… change in law enforcement was the ending of miscellaneous jobs such as dog catching, licensing, and inspecting things like cars and houses."

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"… in 1828 it included a small lock-up to house offenders overnight or on a short-term basis."

Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"Organizations like the Row House, that works to preserve Hallowell’s architectural and culture resources, the Hallowell Area Board of Trade striving…"

Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

"“Old shoe factory will be converted to elderly housing.” Kennebec Journal 31 Aug. 1978: N. pag. Webber, Sumner."

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"Once the timber was cut and the house and barn built, was there anything of value left? The economy of early non-native settlers was built on the…"

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… The Tiger's current location is in the old fire house, and it is still in good working condition. As of 2011, it is 177 years old."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… bookstore located in the same building that housed Ezekiel Goodale’s bookstore and publishing house in the early 1800s."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… the Knickerbocker Ice Company had several ice houses, and the ice was cut from the river in an area about one mile up and shipped to big cities…"

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"Its objective was to provide safe housing and a moral, social and academic education for young women who were considered a danger to themselves or a…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… window borders; the foundation was made of granite. In 1987, an addition made out of cement blocks with a blue belt was built on the back of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… we're ready." I said, “Honey go back to the house. I'm staying here and I'm going to finish what I've started”."

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"Johnson House, Summer Street, Hallowell, 1968Hubbard Free Library The people behind one of the leading factories in Hallowell were twin brothers…"