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Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca. 1895Hubbard Free Library What made Hallowell granite desirable?  It was light and fine grained, with a high…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"The foundation was made out of granite blocks, wood and posts and beams. The house was Victorian influenced and was one-and-a-half stories tall…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"… to do the foundation work on the bridge with granite. The cost to the towns was $750, $500 for abutments underneath the bridge, and $250 for lumber…"

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"Important Buildings and Institutions Hallowell viewed from Butternut Park, Chelsea, ca. 1890Hubbard Free Library In 1909, Emma Huntington…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"The Grant building is brick with a front of granite and limestone in the art deco style. There were 473 Grant stores nationwide."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"The Granite and Ice Industries Granite Quarry Crew at Work, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1890 Men at work in Hall Quarry."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Old Buildings

"Old Buildings Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house Minturn Schoolhouse The Tea Room Redmen's Hall Seaside Hall Andrew Smith Store…"

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"Workers, Hallowell Granite Works, Franklin Street, ca. 1895Hubbard Free Library 250 men worked at both the quarry and the granite yard."

Historic Hallowell - Transportation Challenge

"1890Hubbard Free Library Granite pieces too large to be sent by rail were shipped by sea. Transfer to the ships was done at the granite wharf near…"

Historic Hallowell - Portrait of the Proprietor

"He was the second Maine Governor from Hallowell elected in 1887. His son Joseph F. Bodwell succeeded him as president of the Hallowell Granite Works."

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

"Moving Granite, Outer Winthrop Street, Hallowell, ca. 1890Hubbard Free Library The wagon-like carriers were called "galamanders," and were usually…"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"Granite Workers, Hallowell Granite Works, Hallowell, ca. 1920Hubbard Free Library In 1901 the average Maine granite cutter received between $2.80…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Blacksmiths were are the heart of the granite industry where sharp chisels were an absolute necessity. Wire Mill on Vaughan Brook."

Historic Hallowell - In the Beginning - Raw Materials - Quarrying

"… finest public monuments were cut from Hallowell granite and sculpted by her artisans Hallowell viewed from Chelsea, Hallowell Chelsea Bridge…"

Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Of 1937

"… through the large window at the west end of the granite building. Train Wreck, Hallowell, 1937Hubbard Free Library Train Wreck…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… the cargo shipped to? The products shipped were: granite, wood ashes, lumber, sheep, chickens, and ice, according to Sam Webber, local historian."

Historic Hallowell - One of Many Monuments

"… Free Library One well known example of Hallowell Granite workers’ skill is the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts."

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… Kennebec River steamboat traffic just as the granite industry gave way to concrete and steel. Last Coal Barge, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… established after the Civil War, was the granite industry. For over 50 years, it employed close to 500 skilled stone cutters and sculptors, many of…"

Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"… was glued, they would sprinkle the flint and granite onto the glue and let it dry. This would form into sandpaper."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"Fifty builders and two lighters (unpowered barges used to transfer cargo under tow) for the transport of granite from St."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"It contained 108 granite cells in two tiers of aboveground cells placed back to back. The individual cell size was 7’ long by 4’ wide by 7’ high, the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1940 to Present Day

"Timeline in Granite, Thomaston, Maine 2008Thomaston Historical Society To promote its unique history, Thomaston created the Museum in the Streets in…"