Maine Memory Network

Belfast Historical Society

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Brick Store Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… in 1792 reported that in one day he saw five ships in Eden, one headed to London, another to Santo Domingo and three to Boston."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… ago, Wabanakis spotted the first European sailing ships cruising along their seacoast. The Wabanaki or Dawnland People* had lived in Maine for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"So they built their own ships. There was plenty of timber on the island -- enough, in fact, for them to ship that, too."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"The captains of the ships were middle class, and they lived higher on the hill. Joppa ran from Temple St. to the Vaughan Stream."

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"Hallowell’s ship-owning merchants, anxious to protect their investments by manning their vessels with capable officers and crews, established a…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… the Hallowell Cotton Factory, initially relied on ships to carry cotton to its looms and coal to its steam plant, but soon switched to rail."

Historic Hallowell - More About the Johnson Brothers

"… rapidly in Hallowell  that its shoes were being shipped across the country. There was so much demand for the shoes that the factory had reached 450…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"There are records of many ships built between 1793 and 1872, when the completion of the schooner Isabel marked the end of Hampden’s shipbuilding days…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Benjamin Kimball, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… of Kimball, "When the 22 Regiment left Bangor for Ship Island he was the tallest & handsomest man in the regiment." Martin's illustration of…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

"… it was away "from the hubbub of the city" and ships could easily be loaded there. He chose the town as the departure port on many of his voyages to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… up Spies and Baldwins (apples) from others and shipped them by the carload to Boston." From there they were "sent to England and sold at top…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… local projects – logging, lime burning, canals, ship building and brick making all over what was then Lincoln County."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… at Monhegan, Captain Waymouth re-anchored his ship Archangel off the islands at the base of the St."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… here and Liverpool and other foreign ports, his ships returning with salt, coal, dry goods and hardware."

Cumberland Historical Society

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South Portland Historical Society

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Penobscot Marine Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… farmed, fished, dug clams and sold wood to ships which arrived here from distant places. Sawmills, woolen mills and grist mills were built near the…"

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

"… and statuary were protected during shipment (by ship, and after 1852, by rail) in crates produced in the woodworking shops both at the quarry sites…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"Citroens came from France so they had to be shipped overseas. The Citroens were very small. I remember one time one of the guys I worked with parked…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"Surplus produce was shipped via rail to Augusta for use in other state institutions. This led to the purchase of a prison farm in nearby Warren, run…"

Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

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