Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"… 18th and 19th centuries, providing resources and jobs. The schooner Dispatch, built in 1793, is recorded as the first ship built in one of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"She then moved to Presque Isle to find a job. She found one at Newberry. All her brothers and sisters worked on the farm including her."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"My other job I worked was as a dairy boy. I would go to work at four in the morning for the dairy farm."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"… the war, though, the men returned home to their jobs in the mills and back to regular production. The looming crises of economic collapse…"

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

"… after their jobs disappeared; others followed jobs to Rockland as those on the mainland followed jobs west."

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Ice harvesting was one of the most important jobs and industries along the Kennebec at the turn of the century."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Ice harvesting was one of the most important jobs and industries along the Kennebec at the turn of the century."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… benefited the town is that it gave some people a job after the spool mill moved away. They would have had to clean it out and tear the old building…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… During the mid 19th century, the lumberjack’s job was to cut down trees and and send them down river."

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

"… for two months in the summer, but year-round jobs were scarce and the town's resident population declined as many young people left to seek their…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… to Scarborough and a new industry that created jobs for residents. For a short period of time, Scarborough was part of the new age of aviation and…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… Abraham Lincoln selected thirty war consuls whose job it was to promote the idea of immigration to America under the Homestead Act."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"This helped Hallowell because it provided jobs for men, women, and children. The Cotton Mill helped the economy of Hallowell because it brought money…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"… to work in landscaping and plumbing, which is his job today. As a child, his family would take trips to Mama Olore’s restaurant, Roma Cafe."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… but he did a huge service to his town by offering jobs for the unemployed. The Knox and Lincoln Railroad came through Thomaston in 1871 and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford

"Our job is to attack Confederate ships and prevent them from trade. Lately, we have been attacking Fort Jackson."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"… their work and their dedication to doing a good job." -Renée DesRoberts, Archivist Back to About Us Mrs."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"Members might help another veteran get a job or secure a loan. The GAR helped establish soldiers' homes in sixteen states and orphanages in seven…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"… others work in both blue collar and white collar jobs in Ellsworth, Bangor and on Mount Desert Island."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Crew

"… Educational Society since 2001 and took the job as librarian in 2003. It is the mission of SIES to provide library and historical collections…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… of the Oxford Paper Company bringing jobs to the area, he purchased a large tract of land that became known as Ridlonville."

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

"… family history, his childhood, and his various jobs. Poignantly, he also recorded the deaths of two of his daughters, Annie Martin Snow and Mabelle…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… HallowellHubbard Free Library "It was a terrible job. Terrible! Cold in the winter and cold and wet in the summer. Horrible."