Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… in 1962 the last tanker off-loaded its cargo of heating oil. The Kennebec River, too, lost its luster as industrial development polluted its…"

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"… the advent of Franklin Stoves and other enclosed heating systems the average home burned 20 to 30 cords of wood per year--with a resulting high…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… power lines, tree limbs and many houses without heat and power. It was beautiful and wonderful in a dangerous way."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"The narrow gauge rail system that was laid, came from a bankrupt railroad between Bedford and Billerica, MA."

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

"In Scarborough at 350: Linking the Past to the Present , Elaine Frederick Killelea recalled the heating conditions at Black Point School in the 1930s."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"On February 15th, 1979, it caught fire due to the heating system. The fire started in the store and it spread to the rest of the hall."

Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7

"Some people even died because they didn’t have heat or their heater gave off killing fumes. The ice storm caused so much damage throughout Maine that…"

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… roof over their heads and cut enough firewood to heat their homes and cook their food. During the colonial period the average homestead consumed…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"New windows, lighting, heating and ventilation systems installed, and classrooms for the then 220 students would all be 700 square feet and renovated."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… per schoolhouse, and these furnaces would only heat a few square feet of classroom. The first kids to arrive at school would load the stove with…"

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

"The heating system caught fire and quickly ignited the wood. At 2:00 AM a fire alarm was set off. The Bath Fire Company responded to the fire alarm…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… made running water possible, and plumbing and heating changed in island houses. There was also a decrease in the popular Fourth of July prank of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… in the 1950s, but eventually evolved into a heating business and then an automobile dealership."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"They would stamp each pair. How’d you get heating? We had woodstoves but it only kept one room warm. My wife had it harder than I did."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"After several attempts to build a grading system that would measure learning, a system was developed in 1924 by Myron Hamer, Principal of the High…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… and many families sought to escape the summer heat of the cities. Bangor was already a summer destination, and adventurous families soon discovered…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… each side of the bench with individual stoves for heating their soldering iron. The report said “they are ‘the can makers,’ so called, who solder…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… clothes iron which had a hollow base into which a heated triangular metal piece would fit that kept the iron continuously hot."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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