Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… vessels, but it’s likely that some Scarborough men fished off shore on commercial vessels at the Banks or in recent years, aboard draggers…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"… of exhibit the stern bearded features of men experienced in commanding sailing vessels. In contrast is the elegant appearance of Portland artists…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"Amie Rancourt of Mexico went to work in the mill at the age of "not quite 15 years." Germaine Thomas of Dixfield remembers receiving 35 cents per…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"In May Mogg Heigon and his men returned and began an assault on the garrison. Mogg was killed and his men withdrew, only to return the next month to…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"By 1902 they had 150 men working with a daily output of 50,000 shingles and 15,000 other lumber. There were many crews working in the woods in the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Stearns Lumber Company in East Hampden employed many Hampden men. From its modest beginnings in Brewer in 1836, the Stearns mill became one of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"More than 100 men showed up for the first town meeting. In May of 1795, the Town of Eden separated from Mt. Desert, giving the Island two towns."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… an enlarged social environment for women and for men. Way Back Ball, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum Neighborhood…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"… from our own population upwards of seven hundred men, not only meeting promptly every demand upon us, but also furnishing a surplus to other…"

Maine Granite Industry Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"The fire men were off at a muster when a fire started in a building. The women of the town hauled out the Tiger and used it to put out the fire…"

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"… Society During the war, because so many men were in the military, women went to work in factories to help make machines."

Friends of Wood Island Light

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs. After World War II, the refrigerators were invented which took on the role of storing…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs. After World War II, the refrigerators were invented which took on the role of storing…"

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"During the war more than twenty-five regiments received Lincoln men in the Civil War. I think all the people that fought in the Civil War were really…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"These men and women suffered difficulties they had not previously encountered and subsisted on the land and sea like they had probably never done…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"… the $20 reward posted by James Sagurs, two local men, whose names remain unknown, pretended to befriend Atticus and persuaded him to move to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"You look, then out of nowhere two bulky men dart out in front of you and invite you to their secret meeting at the Masonic Hall."

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"The families of these men were highly affected. It was all men, so those women and children would have to step up and do extra chores and duties to…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The men went deep sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals. Fall/Winter - Before the frosts came, the women and children went into the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"The next winter he went with a crew of men to work at a location twelve miles into the woods from the nearest dwelling."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… This morning, the streets were filled with men on their way to the mill, on their first day of work since that awful fire."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"After just one summer of work, the young men of the Champlain Society had seen enough to know that the island was at risk."