Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Wire, Ice, and Iron Industries

"Wire, Ice, and Iron Industries Anna Hodgkins, Lilly Ly, Maggie Marseglia & Thea Sweet Wire Mill, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Technology

"… communication in Hallowell, the Hallowell Iron Foundry, and transportation in Hallowell were all important parts of Hallowell’s history."

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"Horsing iron, and jerry iron worked together on this, the horsing iron has caulk away deck seams while the Jerry Iron had to extract old seems from…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"The iron works produced iron parts and fittings for farmers as well as shipwrights and cast the first steam engine used in the Cotton Mill factory."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Iron Foundry

"In 1878 George Fuller renamed the Iron works “George Fuller and Sons” while he worked with his sons."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… other industries such as oilcloth factories, iron works, shoe factories, a sandpaper mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"… the iron-making process, the business end of iron making, and the Silver Lake Hotel, which served both tourist interests and workers at the Iron…"

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."

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…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Kids at the quarry

"… for signs of the once-busy industry, from iron spikes left in the granite to boilers that generated the steam power for the quarry tools."

Historic Hallowell - The Fuller Foundry

"They produced iron and brass casting, shafting, hangers, and pulleys. These products were recognized as being average quality, for they weren't the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… 1825 the Saco Manufacturing Company and the Saco Iron Works opened on Cutts Island in Saco; the precursor to the industrialization which would be…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"The nation turned to coal, iron, and oil. Maine’s decreased role in the national trend toward industrial growth would later become an attraction when…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"He hit his head on a broken iron projection on the coach door, opening a five inch gash, with a piece of iron penetrating his skull."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"McClench had worked at Eagle Iron Works in Hallowell. In 1886, the building and company were handed over to Samuel R. Payson of Boston."

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

"… individual stoves for heating their soldering iron. The report said “they are ‘the can makers,’ so called, who solder in the bottoms” of the cans…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… three times a week Lobster Trap Branding Iron, 1961Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Lobster fishing is still done in much the same way…"

Historic Hallowell - Ship Parts

"… machine.) Anchors were commonly made of stone or iron and took up to a year to craft. Each boat had about three or four anchors on board in case…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"… high wooden wheels with a half-inch strip of iron around them and a fifty foot leather hose. It had no way of taking water from a source (for…"

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… of wooden discs which where bound with half inch iron tires. In the center was a pump with one cylinder. The body was five and a half feet long."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"Flat iron straps wrapped around the cables every 30” secured the upper ends of ½” iron suspension rods attached at the lower end to 8” thick cedar…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"To the best of my knowledge, that black rod iron fence on the Main Street side of the park is part of the original."

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

"… must cross on piles – some 800 feet, and the old Iron Horse, with his freight of timber and piles, goes over it a distance of about 600 feet."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Congress ordered, from France, a cast iron stairway and pedestal, a copper dome, and the ultimate in illumination, a Fresnel lens."