Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"Loggers depended on those tools to get the job done. Logging tools were very expensive, so people chose to make their own tools out of wood and metal."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… factories are powered by electricity which opens jobs at power plants, making life easier for everyone. C & E Milliken Sawmill, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… left hundreds of workers in Hallowell without a job. Ship's Knee, Kennebec River, Hallowell, ca.1853Hubbard Free Library As reported in the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

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

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… because all of the children in his family needed jobs to make ends meet. Shep’s mother, Maude, moved the family to many places such as Pittsfield…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"When he first went to Patten, it was for a job. Then when he came back to built houses and saw mills that is when he stayed in Patten and built the…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"That business also gave lots of jobs in town. The Stanislaus family was also important to Lincoln because they provided the town with Native American…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy

"… have been able to get a good education to get a job, because they might not have been motivated to go to another school and actually go through…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"That means we wouldn’t have had jobs and other important people would never have come to make the town of Lincoln."

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… couldn’t build houses, and there would be no jobs, they would have to build houses from hand and they would have to cut the wood by hand."

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"I didn’t have a job last summer, so I didn’t get any new school clothes. My family can’t afford to pay for clothes for me on their own."

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

"… enough to undertake a second fishing-related job such as fishing for shrimp or dragging for hen clams."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"Population grew as people moved to town to fill jobs created by commercial growth. Although an era of peace, conflicts in Korea and Vietnam involved…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"She took a job on the Portland Transcript in 1855, and the next year published her first book of poetry, Forest Buds from the Woods of Maine, under…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"With a decline of industry and jobs, the population supports only a handful of these organizations today."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… that followed also flourished because people had jobs and money to spend in town. In 1840, the population was listed at 1,109 residents; today…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"They also help to support another 50 jobs in forest harvesting and distribution. Mt. Abram High School and four MSAD 58 schools, as well Strong town…"

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

"… grade, Swan’s Island’s students either found jobs or went to the mainland for high school. Prior to the ferry service, this meant attending…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… inhabitants can much more easily commute to jobs in those cities and even Portland to the south."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"… high water that the best plan would be to let a job by the yard to blast away the rock there and put in the piers at the lower end of the dam and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"She became a teacher, a job she held until she met and married John Martin in 1822. Martin Sr. died in 1824, leaving his wife and young son, also…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… pages 74-138 Reed Hardings neighborhood, Brewer; jobs with Dr. Increase Sanger, Ezekiel Hopkins   Part 3, pages 139-194 Work for O.H."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"… understood how to hire the right people for the job and how to execute his creative vision. "Maine First" This “vision” for Gannett's papers was…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… to talk to me about their pains, their anxieties, jobs, their marriage and personal affairs. In the afternoons I visit the sick and check the…"