Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome X X What do you get when you combine local history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"… Project Resources From the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library Books & Manuscripts Baker, William Avery, 1973, “A…"

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

"Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House Text by Claire Keating and Billy Price 7th Grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"The Sagadahoc County Courthouse Text by Jared Gilliam, Emily Parker, and Kaitlyn Smith 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Merchants' Row Text by Dakota Elwell, Danyelle Layton, and Molly Turner 7th graders at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten Free Library…"

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

"The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block Text by Kyle Bonti, Kelsey Brick, Michael Lawrence, and Morgan Vigue 7th grade students at Bath Middle…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"Lincoln Block Text by Isla Brazier, Brody Losier, Haley Scott, and Brianna Swain 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"Ledyard Block Text by Nathanial Barter, Devyn Pushard, and Sheridan Valure 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten Free…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block Text by Alex Anderson, Justin Collander, Dylan Crowell, Matt Nelson, and Lauren Quimby 7th grade students at…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"Davenport Memorial and City Hall Text by Rebecca Black, Christie Duffy, Courtney McKinney, and Brook Mitchell 7th grade students at Bath Middle…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1862

"… both coppies before me now." The store was by the Rail Road Bridge. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"Martin wrote, "Every available place on the bridges custom house wharves tops of store houses vessels boats rafts vessels masts were litterally…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Liz, widow Clark, Bangor, 1848

"… and "were first seen promernading Kenduskeag bridge dressed in two suits made of red Thibot dress brown sock and red hoods." "They created a…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… Bridge, Bangor, 1871Bangor Public Library Tin Bridge Wreck The Tin Bridge collapsed under the weight of an express mail train on August 9, 1871."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"The bridge has been pronounced, by those capable of judging, to be one of the best structures of the kind in this country. Much credit is due to Mr."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… drawings of homes, businesses, churches, schools, bridges, and other subjects. A number are watercolors."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"Blacksmith shops to forge iron fittings were as plentiful as today’s neighborhood corner stores. Steam mills and blockmakers were located at both…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… the first steam-powered log hauler at Waterville Iron Works in 1901. This log hauler featured a continuous track."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… 5 ship joiners, 3 blacksmiths (who fashioned the iron fittings), 1 rigger, 1 caulker, and 1 sail manufacturer."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Maine did not have the coal and iron needed to produce the steel for the ships and engines, and Bath emerged as the only Maine shipbuilding center to…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… Piscataquis Railroad and the Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railway. They hauled pulp and paper, petroleum, mill products, and chemicals."

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

"… is so called after a certain style of old clothes iron which had a hollow base into which a heated triangular metal piece would fit that kept the…"