Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Central Maine Power

"Central Maine Power Ice Storm, Academy Street, Hallowell, 1998Hubbard Free Library CMP Overview CMP crews are the reason Maine isn’t still a…"

Historic Hallowell - The City of Hallowell

"Police officers were dealing with downed power lines, blocking them off and removing them if they were deemed unsafe."

Historic Hallowell - Day 4 - Page 1 of 3

"Now there were 270,000 outages of power and 500,000 people are without power! Over 11,000 Canadian troops came to help."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"Harvesting Potatoes TRACTOR POWER Potato harvester, Mapleton, ca. 1940Presque Isle Historical Society Two row potato digger, ca."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 5 of 17

"… & Saco Plan of Lands of Saco Water Power Co. at Saco & Biddeford, 1848Dyer Library/Saco Museum The cotton textile manufacturing industry…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"Harvesting Potatoes LOTS OF HORSE POWER IS NEEDED X Mechanical diggers were needed to provide a more efficient way of removing potatoes from…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle High School Basketball Team 1913

"Capt Tucker is in first row. Kneeling: Hayden, Powers, Akely, Tweedie, Allan, McGauflin, Blanchard Back row: Mgr Graves and Coach Faulkner."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Jasper Beckwith Spraying Potatoes, Presque Isle, 1940

"Here is shown a type of sprayer that appears to power the pump off the wheels. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"CMP (Central Maine Power) were out and working and putting their skills to the test to see how fast they could turn all the power back on."

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"People that were still with out power ended up going to a civic center where it would be warmer. Governor Angus King said that the cost to CMP and…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"Louise Potter who spent nine days trying to run the Suburban Pines Motel in Windham without power while housing eight relatives, then when a guest…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"Wire Mill Power, Vaughan Stream, Hallowell, ca. 1879 Hand drawn by John WallaceHubbard Free Library There were three dams that were on the Vaughan…"

Historic Hallowell - St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and the Hubbard Free Library

"But branches and power lines were down and the heat and electricity was off. Q: Did people still go to church? A: Yes, they still had services by…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm of 1998

"January 11,1998 •DAY 5. The power is coming back slowly but surely. January 12,1998 •DAY 6. Each day the power was getting back town by town."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"2,800 shelters were ready for people without power. 8. There 20 cases of Monoxide poisoning. 9. Over 1,000 pylons collapsed in chain reactions under…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Comparisons

"In the ice storm in Canada they lost their power due to a layer of ice weighing down the power lines. The ice kept coming until the wire snaps."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"Rumford Falls Power completed an expansion of their power generation capabilities in 1954 by installing two new penstocks from the middle canal to…"

Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7

"… storm caused so much damage throughout Maine that power companies from Massachusetts and New Hampshire came over to help reconnect power lines but…"

Historic Hallowell - Wire, Ice, and Iron Industries

"… water source that could be used to create power. A few main industries that played an important part in Hallowell’s history were the Fuller…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - King Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1920

"… horses, which means that the pump was probably powered by the sprayer wheels.The potato plants appear to be in blossom, so the photograph was taken…"

Guilford, Maine - NARRATIVE

"… of the natural resource for transportation and power. While river travel is quite limited now, we have held onto our industrial roots and remain…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Kids at the quarry

"… the granite to boilers that generated the steam power for the quarry tools. The kids even got to get their hands dirty as they excavated for…"

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"We had faulty transmission lines so when we fixed power in one place we lost power in another. When it wasn't the transmission lines, it would be the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."