Maine Memory Network

Wilson Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… up Spies and Baldwins (apples) from others and shipped them by the carload to Boston." From there they were "sent to England and sold at top…"

Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"There are records of many ships built between 1793 and 1872, when the completion of the schooner Isabel marked the end of Hampden’s shipbuilding days…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"… Project (MCHP), a partnership between the Maine Historical Society and Maine State Library, is an innovative program that promotes collaboration…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men

"His son, E.G. Pierce, built many fine ships on the Kennebec, and another son, Eben, in 1865 invented one of the deadliest whaling weapons ever…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Pendleton & Ross stand, Bangor, 1864

"… and shopkeeper, worked for Pendleton & Ross ship chandlers beginning in 1854. Martin wrote that Pendleton & Ross was "the largest and finest…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"The ice industry became a big industry in Maine. Ships hauled blocks of ice all the way to Cuba and the West Indies."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"L., Jr., 1995, “A Summary History of Bath, Maine 1850 to 1990.” Bath, Maine: Core Committee of the Comprehensive Plan for Bath, 1995."

Historic Hallowell - Transportation Challenge

"Transfer to the ships was done at the granite wharf near the intersection of Water and Temples Streets."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Ice was even shipped away to countries like Cuba and the West Indies. Usually the ice was shipped to nearby cities like Boston."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Ice was even shipped away to countries like Cuba and the West Indies. Usually the ice was shipped to nearby cities like Boston."

Blue Hill Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

South Portland Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"… of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950 The large ships had short life expectancies, being driven hard and fast by their masters."

Camden-Rockport Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"The trees from northern Maine that were normally shipped down the Kennebec River were mainly pines. When they got shipped down the Kennebec, they…"

Friends of Wood Island Light

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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

"In the urban areas of Maine, ethnic tensions and nativist hatreds rose through the 1920's, and in 1924 the Ku Klux Klan claimed 50,000 members in…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"The French called the ethnic group of southwestern Maine “Armouchiquois“, but the tribes often referred to themselves by their family band name."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec

"… schooners and steamboats, hazardous ice cutting, shipping, whaling, and also the waterfront. This exhibit was created in 2011 by the 7th Grade…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"Once the ship was at the dock, the cotton was brought up to the mill by horse and wagon. When the cotton was shipped out, they were brought to other…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"Surplus produce was shipped via rail to Augusta for use in other state institutions. This led to the purchase of a prison farm in nearby Warren, run…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"The captains of the ships were middle class, and they lived higher on the hill. Joppa ran from Temple St. to the Vaughan Stream."