Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"Cliff was a schooner that had competition from steam-powered freighters during the Great Depression. In 1941, the "Zebedee E. Cliff" and the "Maude M."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"… huge derricks, and boiler houses to run the steam drills sprang up on the hill. Quarry rails from the quarry dock to the quarry, Swan's…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Over sixty years of steam service, two captains and three ships: the Vinalhaven, Governor Bodwell, and the North Haven, served the needs of Swan’s…"

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"It was a small steam powered mill with a round rotary saw. The carriage, which moved the lumber along the saw, was short and referred to by locals as…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… was blessed by nature/With her harbor, hills and steams/The streams that furnished water power/Before days we knew of steam."

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

"… left in 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…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Quarrying

"Boats under sail (in the 1890s) or steam boats, soon thereafter, would come into Burnt Coat Harbor and collect brick sized cut stone."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… its first summer population in 1868 when the steam boats made regular trips between Bangor and Ryder Landing."

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"The Steam and Boom Company collected all the logs and put them through a saw mill. The saw mill would make the logs in different shapes and sizes, so…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"With the coming of steam-driven vessels, sailing vessels underwent a change of design from square-riggers to schooners to stay competitive."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… to carry cotton to its looms and coal to its steam plant, but soon switched to rail. Soon, reliable transportation attracted other industries such…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… full of firsts for Biddeford: the opening of the steam railroad (only 5 hours to Boston!), the first "block" built, the first bank, the first fire…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"When steam replaced wind power, most of the stately sailing ships were stripped of their spars and rigging and turned into barges for hauling coal…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"Steam mills and blockmakers were located at both ends of Water Street, and there were lumber mills to provide for both ship planking and house…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… and the new technologies of the ironclads and the steam engine. Blue Hill could not adapt to building these new boats at that time, but today the…"

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

"… Free Library Before derrick cranes and steam winches large pieces were extracted by means of "rising wedges," levers, block and tackle and wood…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… was dried up, the factories were then powered by steam engines. As a result, the Vaughan Stream had many uses."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"Logs could be floated, and steam-driven factories were set up along the river banks. After 1900, when the first permanent bridge across the stream in…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Ice men are guiding ice blocks toward the steam-powered conveyor belt. This belt lifts the blocks up, into the ice house for later shipping."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… to and from this port.” City of Richmond steam ship, ca. 1882Maine Historical Society In 1884, a railroad extension from Bangor through…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist. Byron Weston's ox team (picture shown below) was first used to haul blocks of ice from…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist. Byron Weston's ox team (picture shown below) was first used to haul blocks of ice from…"

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

"A survey of the steam power to drive the steam engines of each paper machine, dry the paper, cook the pulp, and heat the buildings found a need for a…"

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

"This steam could be used for producing electricity and, as a byproduct, could be sold for use in the paper plant."