Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… shipbuilding yards along the Kennebec and lots of workers building these ships. They would get giant logs to put in their ships and huge quantities…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"1,000 utility and tree service workers worked 20 hour days to fix lines and clean up trees. 2. CMP had to restore power to over 250,000 customers 3."

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"1885Hubbard Free Library Two hundred workers were required during peak production in the Cotton Mill in Hallowell, Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and long sleeved shirts. Hallowell was the location of the great sorting boom for down-river mills."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… an entire city block, employed 100 production workers, and 20 hand-copiers who addressed envelopes off-site. "Oint-Ease," Dr."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… haul the ice down our ice house and then other workers would shove it up the ramp into the ramp and stack it."

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

"… haul the ice down our ice house and then other workers would shove it up the ramp into the ramp and stack it."

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

"… been employed in labor upon the streets, blasting stone, preparing them for use, and in removing loom from the gravel pit and spreading it upon the…"

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

"… had moved off the island and today only the foundation stones and remnants are all that remain of a once thriving community in Blue Hill."

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 - 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."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"In 1900 a descendant, Elias Hutchins, placed a stone marking the spot of this homestead. He chiseled D.H. 1783 on the front and E.H. on the back."

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,”…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… of Andrew Mellon, built the 7,000±-square-foot stone and shingle 5-chimney residence called Blythelyn. Mr. and Mrs."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Rumford, ca. 1912Greater Rumford Area Historical Society The many workers from Europe and Canada brought with them…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

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

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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."