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Historic Hallowell - Historic Hallowell Homes

"House, Gows Lane, Hallowell, 1968Hubbard Free Library Captian Benjamin Gould House, Winthrop Street, Hallowell, 1968Hubbard Free Library…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House

"Hallowell House The Hallowell House was built in 1832 and operated for a century as the Hallowell House and held the Governor's suite for…"

Historic Hallowell - Captains and Their Ships

"… on Schooners and Steamers, including Tankers within this paragraph. Socony Tanker, Kennebec River, Hallowell, 1957Hubbard Free Library"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"There is no documentation for either theory. We do know the stream was renamed Vaughan Stream after the Vaughan Family inherited it from Benjamin…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… shut down, three years after changing the name to Kennebec River Mills. In December of 1895, a violent storm ripped off a section of the roof of…"

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… book, “A Maritime History of Bath, Maine, and the Kennebec River Region” he writes that in 1851, Captain Job Pierce, who was an experienced whale…"

Historic Hallowell - City Marshals

"He was assigned the duties of deputy sheriff of Kennebec County in 1901 and City Marshal of Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

"Nason, Emma H. Old Hallowell on the Kennebec. Hallowell: n.p., 1909 Potter, Betty. “Hallowell Shoe closes.” Kennebec Journal 13 Feb. 1975: N. pag."

Historic Hallowell - Joppa

"Joppa Looking North, Hallowell, 1870Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner North Joppa, Temple Street Corner, Hallowell…"

Historic Hallowell - John Calvin Stevens House

"… shingle style home sits high above the Kennebec River town of Hallowell, Maine. Note the turret and open, rounded porch which are drawn into the…"

Historic Hallowell - Thomas Bond House

"Hallowell House". An 1879 Kennebec County map shows the occupant of the Thomas Bond House as H.Q. Blake. H.Q."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"High School, Hallowell, ca. 1900Hubbard Free Library Young factory workers (like people who worked at the local Hallowell cotton mills and shoe…"

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"Row House, Hallowell, ca. 1935 Hallowell mill workers lived in The Row House on Second Street. Hubbard Free Library The Cotton Mill's main textile…"

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… highway, by razing all the buildings between the Kennebec River and Water Street, including the commercial areas known as Merchant’s Row and…"

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies

"… of places -- a wilderness area well inland on the Kennebec River. The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make it more than a…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective

"… by Sam Webber in his top hat, and last a tour of Hallowell's Museum in the Streets annotated by another Historical Hallowell team member, Gerry…"

Historic Hallowell - Wire, Ice, and Iron Industries

"Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca. 1930Hubbard Free Library Milliken's Crossing, Looking north on Water Street, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… Eastern Steamship Company Wharf, Kennebec River, Hallowell, ca. 1890Hubbard Free Library The Zebedee E."

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"Everybody would carry the leather buckets to the Kennebec River, fill them with water, and lug them back up to the burning house to douse the fire."

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place

"… another man stood on the hillside overlooking the Kennebec and reflected on what had attracted him to Hallowell, a place he now called home."

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"… author and composer wrote in Old Hallowell on the Kennebec: A stranger visiting Hallowell, to-day, cannot fail to be impressed by the picturesque…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"In Hallowell, a point jutting into the Kennebec River known as Bombahook was a convenient location. The peninsula, known later as Sheppard's Point…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Interviews

"Hallowell Ice Interviews Ice Storm Video Interviews Mike Grant, Fire Chief Interview  Created by Mason Peaslee and Tiffiny McCollett Interview of…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Iron Foundry

"1934Hubbard Free Library The Hallowell Iron Foundry supplied the Hallowell Cotton Mill with parts for the machines when they were broken."