Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - The Hallowell Union Fire Club

"… 1801 because citizens didn’t want to lose their houses from fire. One of the first firefighters in Hallowell was Dr."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"… mill at Cobbossee, and built a comfortable frame house of two stories in front and one at the rear, according to the fashion of the times; and ever…"

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

"Moore's Ice House HallowellHubbard Free Library "It was a terrible job. Terrible! Cold in the winter and cold and wet in the summer. Horrible."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Many houses on the island have private collections of these artifacts, though little is known of their original owners."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Historical Society

"nurse, school nurse, editor, sales administrator, event planner and regulatory affairs specialist. Other interests are just as varied: conservation…"

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

"Lastly, in 1979, it became a house for the elderly and remains that to this day. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library In…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"The Fuller Foundry and Knickerbocker's Ice House are on the right. Captured logs and buildings on rafts belong to the Hallowell Steam and Boom…"

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

"Unmarked logs were free for the taking. Bunk houses with adjoining cook and mess shacks were erected on rafts and anchored on the Chelsea side of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice; The Ice Storm of 1998; Ice Storm '98

"Ice Storm '98 Written by Amber Bell Houses were covered in ice Freezing rain falls and falls again The storm continues Everything is frozen Trees…"

Historic Hallowell - Joppa

"The tavern no longer exists and many of the houses have been razed in the past ten years, but the name clings to the section and probably will for…"

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"… he will still see the handsome, spacious houses of the early settlers of old Hallowell, with their ever hospitable doors still open to the guest…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"Mr. Page’s Ice House was also located on the waterfront for easy access to ice. When the railroad was built, the waterfront was used less."

Historic Hallowell - Day 3 - Page 1 of 2

"… that the carbon monoxide would not get into the house. Overall they had a very good time getting closer."

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"There have been no deaths, and the general health of the inmates has been good. Next steps in the stroll through Hallowell ~ Thomas Bond House."

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… in Hallowell? Johnny Stringer lived in a little house up on Academy Hill where he earned his living by making and rebottoming chairs, and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"And, the Customs House, originally built in 1858, was expanded toward the river in 1911, doubling its floor space while retaining its architectural…"

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"Tree limbs had knocked onto peoples houses and roads,damaging about everything. Like cars, and homes."

Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations

"Foundry. Dictionary.com. Unabridged. Random House, Inc.http:// dictionary.reference.com/browse/foundry (accessed: April 14, 2011) “Maineʼs First…"

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… document read in part: Joshua Wingate House, Union Street, Hallowell, 1968Hubbard Free Library In Hallowell, Maine, is represented a 19th…"

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"… have taken over the shore lines and even some houses have been considered ruins in what is now left of the shores of Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"Not only were they housing people in shelters but the number of Red Cross shelters activated and filled was the most in Maine history."

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"… from different wire mills to connect wires to houses and bring electricity. The electricity had a major impact in daily life in historic Hallowell…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"… though fires were few and far between because houses were made of heavy cut wood from the forest regions around Hallowell and the logs that floated…"