Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies

"… -- 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 - Hallowell History Bibliography

"A Maritime History of Bath and the Kennebec River Region. Bath, ME.: Marine Research Society of Bath, 1973. "Seaport on the Kennebec" Vol."

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… high-quality, fine grained granite close to the river. Outcroppings like those of Hain’s Ledge Quarry just a couple miles west of town provided…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"They would build ships on the Kennebec River and then send them to sea to ship goods to other cities like Boston or New York City and return with…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"… ride the ferry, there was a long cable across the river so the ferry could not float down the river and so the operator could pull them across in…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"In Hallowell, a point jutting into the Kennebec River known as Bombahook was a convenient location. The peninsula, known later as Sheppard's Point…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"4, 2010). Hunton, F. D., Kennebec River Flood, Business district, Hallowell, 1870, Hallowell ME, 1870, http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=29193…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"Though steamboats now and then were both used to carry goods and people across rivers and lakes they are not used as widely as they once were due to…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The river got very polluted when the sewage and toilet waste got flushed into the river. All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The river got very polluted when the sewage and toilet waste got flushed into the river. All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… several ice houses, and the ice was cut from the river in an area about one mile up and shipped to big cities like Boston and New York."

Lincoln, Maine - Pulp mill, Lincoln, 1915 - Page 1 of 2

"… Lincoln to the Brewer Mill in 1915 because the river drive stopped in Lincoln. A narrow gauge train dumped pulp wood into the mill pond."

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… three years after changing the name to Kennebec River Mills. In December of 1895, a violent storm ripped off a section of the roof of the Cotton…"

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… Maritime History of Bath, Maine, and the Kennebec River Region” he writes that in 1851, Captain Job Pierce, who was an experienced whale hunter…"

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"4, 2010). Hunton, F. D., Kennebec River Flood, Business district, Hallowell, 1870, Hallowell ME, 1870, http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=29193…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"In order to take lumber from both mills down the river, they had to be assembled into rafts. Ten rafts were hooked together with one man on each end…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"He worked as a river guide until he became Governor of the Penobscot tribe on October 5, 1880. Stephen probably made changes to the Penobscot people…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"… was a small hill not far from the Penobscot River, called Ballard Hill. The townspeople did most of the work themselves."

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Moor. Mr. Moor died in the Mattawamkeag River trying to cross the river to give the north part of Mattawamkaeg its mail."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… of his sons) went to Enfield and drowned in the river. He made his way north in 1824 with all of his family, where on the Winn borderline he built…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He also purchased river lots #1 and #18 and the gore that lay between them. In 1826, Ira built the first house on West Broadway."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"More modern travelers had the option of driving up Route 2, along the river from Howland or down from Medway."

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"John River Valley , N. Aroostook Co., Me. and Madawaska Co., NB: A History of the Communities and People. Web. 8 Apr. 2010."

Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy

"… on 90 acres of land overlooking the Penobscot River on Hill Crest, the new Mattanawcook Academy was built."