Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Ice cutting industries, specifically Gardiner ice cutting industry cut ice off of the Kennebec River, during the cold winter seasons when the ice was…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."

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

"Quarry rails, Swan's Island, ca. 1900Swan's Island Historical Society These stones were known as the "New York" or "Philadelphia" sized paving…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Student genealogy

"… in photos of Fritz doing the old "twist and kiss" stone cutting move. Fritz Johnson, Swan's Island, ca. 1950."

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

"The stone was drilled, blasted, and lifted out of the pit. One man “motions” sprang up wherever there was a small field of stone to be carved by an…"

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"Workers produced building stones, paving stones and statuary and monuments. The paving stones, 6x8 inches, sold for 20 cents apiece and were shipped…"

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

"Cornice stones for Boston's Quincy Market, for example, were produced beginning in 1815. Largest Granite Slab cut from Hains Ledge Quarry…"

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"… granite and sculpted by her artisans, but why stone from the banks of the Kennebec and who were the movers, shakers, and hard rock breakers…"

Historic Hallowell - Ship Parts

"Each boat had about three or four anchors on board in case one got stuck and had to be cut. For a whole ship to be built with the “technology” they…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner Stone Bridge over Vaughan Brook. Vaughan Brook tumbled into the Kennebec on the north side of Sheppard's…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Initially these settlers came to cut timber for boat building and to cultivate the land for their family’s food. Early fishing schooner, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec

"… of schooners and steamboats, hazardous ice cutting, shipping, whaling, and also the waterfront."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"“Once there was enough ice for the horses then you would cut holes and set up the loading platform and wait for it to freeze in solid."

Historic Hallowell - In the Beginning - Raw Materials - Quarrying

"… Many of America's finest public monuments were cut from Hallowell granite and sculpted by her artisans Hallowell viewed from Chelsea…"

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

"Cascade Pond - Vaughan HomesteadHubbard Free Library Once there was enough ice for the horses then you would cut holes and set up the loading…"

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Wire mills still exist today, but workers use high-tech machines to cut the wire and shrink it to a certain diameter."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 4 of 17

"… a contract for the New York Harlem Bridge and a bridge in Philadelphia to provide 25,000 yards of stone to New York and 600 for Philadelphia."

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… settlers had to put a roof over their heads and cut enough firewood to heat their homes and cook their food."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"Stone from the island was used in buildings all over the country. Most notable were the Congressional Library, the Brooklyn Bridge and the…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"… and far between because houses were made of heavy cut wood from the forest regions around Hallowell and the logs that floated down the Kennebec."

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… for all the demands for them so that people could cut down the fallen trees. The ice storm had damaged public utilities, forestry, private…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"The Racing Knife marked or shaped a cut of an object. The Reeming Iron was an iron wedge used to wedge up seems before caulking it."

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"They might have cut down more wood if more people were getting wood stoves, and fireplaces. So then there would be less trees."