Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"The grocery store is called Brackett's Market and it has absolutely nothing to do with entertainment. Dreamland Theater, Front Street, Bath, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… “We would deliver to the Worster House and the markets. In he summer they would have soda in big tubs to keep it cold."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Indeed, the building of schooners carried Bath through the nationwide depression and into relative prosperity in the 1880s and 1890s."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… to send lumber along to the Penobscot River to market. In order to take lumber from both mills down the river, they had to be assembled into rafts."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Maine Special potato bag, Presque Isle, c. 1950

"… illustrates the strong interest in distinctive marketing efforts that is still evident today. View additional information about this item on the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… and continued to the late '40s, when the herring market faded and the cost of yearly rebuilding the weir made this historic venture obsolete."

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

"… We would deliver to the Worster House and the markets. In he summer they would have soda in big tubs to keep it cold."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"Finally, the logs were dried, planed, and shipped to the market. Stickney & Page Dam, Cascade, Hallowell, 1871Hubbard Free Library"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"A MARKET FOR STARCH Marketing potatoes at starch factories, Houlton, 1895Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum A tradition unique to many…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"… people committing suicide about the great stock market crash Did you know anyone who was personally affected and committed suicide? No How did your…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"… experience with investments during the stock market crash. Did you have any troubles getting the basic necessities? Andrew Anderson, clip one  No…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… Sawyer: What do you remember about the stock market crash? Like how old were you then? Woodrow Wilson: I was not to well acquainted with that."

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

"… Isle, Maine fifty years ago down where JP Cash Market is now located. Back then, Frank (Skippy), who owned Carroll’s Auto Sales, sold used cars."

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"… folks chose the photo of what is now Boynton's market to be enlarged and displayed at the library. The photographs appear below."

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"Cornice stones for Boston's Quincy Market, for example, were produced beginning in 1815. Largest Granite Slab cut from Hains Ledge Quarry…"

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… 1819Hubbard Free Library In short order a huge market for wood ashes was created and the American colonies, awash in wood ash, were ready to meet…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"Pendleton Library and now the two markets, Durkees and Island Market, has opened the summer community experience into a more universal one."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"… five years due to the distance of the timber to market. The mill could not compete with the growing number of mills in the state."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First Baptist Church, Bangor, ca. 1850

"… He wrote in the journal that he went to the market to buy potatoes on July 9, 1864, and took a sheet of paper with him so he could sketch the…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"The view up Middle Street ends with City Hall in Market Square, now the site of the statue in Monument Square."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… highway to national and even international markets. Soon wharfs, booms, and mills lined the Penobscot and Kenduskeag Rivers."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"that helps American businesses in foreign markets. He conducts international business in China and all around the world."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"At the same time urban markets welcomed this change of seafood. Steamboats were replacing the sailed boats and thus were better able to get the fresh…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"These boats were after cod and haddock, the only marketable fish at the time. The market for salt fish expanded in 1800, leading more settlers to…"