Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… Company had 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."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"People wanted to cut or saw off damaged branches to try and save trees or to use for firewood to keep warm, but arborists advised them to leave the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"People had to cut down branches because they put to much weight on the power lines. This is how these two storms are alike."

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"… years because there are newer and safer ways to cut down and transform trees into logs and logs into boards."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"Oftentimes, sand was applied with paint to imitate the texture of stone. Both Mount Vernon and Monticello have this feature."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"And so until we got a chain saw and cut up those trees we couldn’t go anywhere. It was just totally blocked, and another neighbor’s tree fell across…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Carrying stone over water was sometimes perilous: stone sloops sank more readily than the timber schooners in bad weather."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"The quarry on South Street was opened to supply stone for the Western Division Railroad built in 1872."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… elaborate because of the detail of how the stone was cut, set, and placed. Post Office & Custom House, Bath, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… western Maine will notice remnants of the past: stone walls that once enclosed open fields, lilac-shrouded cellar holes that once housed thriving…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Using tools made of stone, bone, wood, and natural plant and animal fibers, they harvested an incredibly diverse range of mammals, birds and fish…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… sand, uniformly graded to small stone to larger stone to very large stone on the other end. “The wave action must have done that over the years,”…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"Certain signs cut on trees marked paths from one home to another; and if marks were cut just right, the traveler could find his way after dark."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"He later built a stone dam down stream to create Red Rock Pond. The ponds were stocked with over 5000 trout. Sources: Mitchell, H."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"This stretch of Route 9 was marked with stone pillars and planted out with trees. Since the Civil War, many towns throughout New England had erected…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… Society During the winter of 1780, the stones for the first mill were brought from Winthrop over the ice and snow."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The gypsum and grinding stones to supply the mills were among the goods smuggled into the country from Nova Scotia."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… among them is the Italianate Customs House, a stone structure begun in 1852 near the site of the King home, and completed in 1858."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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