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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block. You would have to cut it to fit the ice box and then carry it up to the…"

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

"… showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block. You would have to cut it to fit the ice box and then carry it up to the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… period, including the Granite Block, the Union Block, the Bank Block and the Church Block, the latter having replaced the Universalist Church razed…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"… rendered unrepairable when it fell into the ice pond in the park. It was soon replaced with the Spirit of the Sea."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Ice was either a ten cents block or a twenty cents block. You would have to cut it to fit the ice box and then carry it up to the house."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory

"Large round blocks of cheese were stored in round wooden boxes. These boxes were often used as pantry storage boxes. Return to Student Research"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"The crews would cut pond ice into two-by-four-foot slabs weighing about 200 pounds each and store them, packed in sawdust, in ice houses."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Later, gasoline powered trucks were used until the ice harvesting operation closed down around 1950. Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Later, gasoline powered trucks were used until the ice harvesting operation closed down around 1950. Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… long stove, using odd pieces of discarded shovel blocks.” Everyone used the same long-handled dipper to drink from the pail of fresh water."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Pond Block, Guilford, ca. 1890Guilford Historical Society In 1827 Guilford began to grow and prosper and by 1865 there were saw mills, law offices…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… with 13 lakes—14, if the part of Cold Stream Pond that lies within Lincoln’s borders is counted."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Gould Butler) Walton Mills and Walton Pond, Farmington, ca. 1930Farmington Historical Society On their arrival the early settlers began to…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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