Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Train Crossing the Aroostook River Bridge, Presque Isle, c. 1990

"… Aroostook Railroad Train Crossing the Aroostook River Bridge, Presque Isle, c. 1990 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society…"

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"Railroads and motor vehicles replaced Kennebec River steamboat traffic just as the granite industry gave way to concrete and steel."

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"The Kennebec River waters have taken over the shore lines and even some houses have been considered ruins in what is now left of the shores of…"

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and long sleeved shirts. Hallowell was the location of the great sorting boom for down-river mills."

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"They could go from Hallowell to as far away as Cuba. Last Tanker, Kennebec River, 1966Hubbard Free Library"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"Meeting at Koussinok Kennebec River Hubbard Free Library Late in the fall of 1625 a small boat with seven men aboard slowly made its way up…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… was delivered to the Cotton Mill on the Kennebec river to Hallowell by sailing ship. Once the ship was at the dock, the cotton was brought up to…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"The two excessive amounts of water flow caused the Kennebec River to flood its banks. The flood hit the community on the night of March 13, 1936."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Once the ice was off the river, it would be pulled by horse to the nearest ice house. There the ice blocks would run down a ramp, to be set by tons…"

Historic Hallowell - John Calvin Stevens House

"… shingle style home sits high above the Kennebec River town of Hallowell, Maine. Note the turret and open, rounded porch which are drawn into the…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"The trees from northern Maine that were normally shipped down the Kennebec River were mainly pines. When they got shipped down the Kennebec, they…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 2 of 2

"… Eastern Steamship Company Wharf, Kennebec River, Hallowell, ca. 1890 Click on the picture and zoom-in for a closer look! Check out the kids fishing…"

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"1890Hubbard Free Library In A Maritime History of Bath and the Kennebec River Region, William Avery Baker pointed out that ..."

Historic Hallowell - Captains and Their Ships

"… on Schooners and Steamers, including Tankers within this paragraph. Socony Tanker, Kennebec River, Hallowell, 1957Hubbard Free Library"

Historic Hallowell - Our Journey Home

"… -- a wilderness area well inland on the Kennebec River. The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make it more than a place to…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"… of Bombay India, and the hook in the Kennebec River just below the point. There is no documentation for either theory."

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"Hallowell is no exception. The Kennebec River is the thoroughfare. While, like most communities in Maine the first resource exploited was timber…"

Lincoln, Maine - Pulp and paper mill, Lincoln, 1945 - Page 1 of 2

"To the left is the narrow gauge railroad going to the river. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"In 1887, Payson changed the name to Kennebec River Mills. Row House, Hallowell, ca. 1935 Hallowell mill workers lived in The Row House on Second…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"… many shipbuilding spots on the shore of Kennebec River in Hallowell. Then in the 1900s, oil was brought to the waterfront in tanks."

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"… would carry the leather buckets to the Kennebec River, fill them with water, and lug them back up to the burning house to douse the fire."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"… a severe storm at the mouth of the Kennebec River. In 1801, Agry moved with his new wife to Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"Also you can still find pieces of coal near the river. The other business was Hamilton Coal. It was located where the Bulkhead is at the bottom of…"

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… by razing all the buildings between the Kennebec River and Water Street, including the commercial areas known as Merchant’s Row and Kennebec Row."