Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement Photograph of a portrait of Colonel James Swan, 1795 X The beginnings of European…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"The Tea Room Clevie and Mary Trask, Swan's Island, ca. 1940Swan's Island Historical Society 253 Harbor Road is now known best as the popular…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry Waiting for the first ferry run, Swan's Island, 1960Swan's Island Historical Society The William S."

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

"Exhibits Staples brothers waiting for the bus, Swan's Island, ca. 1955Swan's Island Historical Society In creating our exhibits, especially…"

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

"Biddeford’s granite and slate cutting was a crucial part of their economy and even helped support the build of the Western Railroad in 1872. Andrews…"

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

"1890 Men at work in Hall Quarry. Stone from Mount Desert Island was loaded directly onto boats in the deep water of Somes Sound and shipped to cities…"

Historic Hallowell - Portrait of the Proprietor

"… Free Library Joseph Bodwell opened granite quarries in Vinalhaven in 1852. He moved to Hallowell in 1866 and started the Hallowell Granite…"

Maine Granite Industry Historical Society

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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."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3

"1890Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. However, the largest industry on the island was granite quarrying--reportedly 150 workers were employed at a mine…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"At the end of it all Mr. B.F. Choate, of the quarry road said that he saw a mysterious dark cloud but failed to report anything about it."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Slate, a rock formed from shale and mined by quarrying, had low heat and not very much pressure put on it."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… The quarrying industry Maine's coastal granite quarries were in a good position to supply stone for buildings and streets to the growing cities of…"

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."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"… built the first limekiln in which to burn stone quarried from the former prison site for shipment to the Boston market."

Porter Memorial Library

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"The 1912 addition was also granite from the same quarry at Mussel Ridge Islands in Penobscot Bay. The architectural style of the 2.5 story building…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… inland.” Just behind the Mall along the riverbank stone tools and stone boiling rocks spanning the last 3,500 years are plainly visible."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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