Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… followed, as did a woodworking mill and a linseed oil factory. Sheppard's PointHubbard Free Library Sheppard's Point was the location of many…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"Then in the 1900s, oil was brought to the waterfront in tanks. Later in the 1940s and 50s, the waterfront was used by people along Water Street and a…"

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… the last tanker off-loaded its cargo of heating oil. The Kennebec River, too, lost its luster as industrial development polluted its waters, but…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… Changing Community Workers in Wiler's Oil Cloth Factory.Hubbard Free Library When the railroad came to Hallowell in 1851 it appeared that…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… muskrat stews simmered, fish sizzled in seal oil, and Indian frybread bubbled up in hot lard. Sometimes, the rank, greasy smell of roasted porpoise…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"… Dam, Glue Mill, Quartz Mill, Machinery & Oil Mill, and Flint Paper Stock Isinglass & Stock for Same."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"It was heated by oil and an old-fashioned wood stove despite the two fireplaces, and has 14 acres surrounding it."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Source Materials

"… providing access and allowing the 19th Century oil painting of Asticou by Dr. John L. Hughes to be photographed and used for this project."

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"The soap making recipe uses fat or oils and an essential ingredient scarce in nearly treeless Europe - wood ashes."

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"… in technology, the ships relied more on oil and an engine than wind power. On a ship, it was important to have lifeboats in case of an emergency…"

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"They didn’t use oil, so basically everything was run off of coal or wood. For cooking they basically had the same things as heating."

Early Maine Photography - Art

"… is represented in a circa 1865 tintype copy of an oil painting of a man in the dress of the 1830s or 40s."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"oil storage facility near the ball fields. But bad news cohabitated with good news – it seemed nothing could discourage the machinery of progress."

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"Whale oil is rarely used today, so modern whaling is mainly hunting the whales for food, as well as scientific research purposes."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… 1 barrel of molasses 1 cask of raisins 1 cask of oil 1 bundle of bed springs 54 1/2 of shingles 15in 73 feet of boards 17 barrels of pot ashes 1…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"Finally in 1985, the clay-oil surface was replaced with a smooth asphalt racing-surface. It is the only NASCAR-sanctioned racetrack in Maine.(3)…"

Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"In 1987 a new company was formed, The Rumford Co-Generation Company, which could burn oil, wood bio-mass, coal, chipped rubber, auto tires, and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… traded it for flour, sugar, soap, molasses, and oil. They eventually shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York and to Europe."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"One of the earliest industries was the Linseed Oil factory. In 1879, the Knickerbocker Ice Company had several ice houses, and the ice was cut from…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"The old coal boilers were converted to oil-fired, and recovery burning boilers were added to retrieve costly chemicals."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… result of unsupervised candles, lanterns, wood or oil stoves, or cigarettes from human hands. Rumford experienced numerous expensive fires."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"… for treating constipation, or conversely, castor oil as a purgative, or even “tincture of opium” or “brandy, taken raw (1 to 2 drams.)” Along with…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Shea, who received 25 barrels of cottonseed oil which he sold to local sardine packers. Freight haulers also benefited greatly from the new steamer…"