Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lamps and stove, John Martin store, Bangor, 1864

"Lamps and stove, John Martin store, Bangor, 1864 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description Two kerosene…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"… were warmed in the colder months by four box stoves. <- Prev. Page ................................................................."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 362-451

"Harlow Wood & Bishop, stove & iron dealers Luther Cary Dora Spencer Joseph H. Garmon B.N. Thomas Heminway & Hersey Pendleton & Ross Ship Chandlers…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Train Station, Presque Isle, ca. 1908

"Walls floors and ceiling of office are wooden. Stove in middle of room has coal scuttle next to it. Large desk on right is high, requiring clerk to…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… with his father, working at Eastes and Whittiers Stove Store, and his move to Bangor to work for Rufus Prince, Soap & Tallow Chandler."

Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 2 of 2

"… their clothes in the basement next to the wood stove. This process took a good portion of the day. Drying took all day."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"… could get it later for it to be burned in a wood stove. They had to erase all of the chalkboards and pick up the classroom after school."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin in Spanish cloak, Bangor, 1846

"… for me." In the spring of 1846, he bought the stove pipe hat, which had just come into fashion. He called it a silk, round topped fur hat."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"It was heated by oil and an old-fashioned wood stove despite the two fireplaces, and has 14 acres surrounding it."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… high towers for hanging hose to dry and a large stove to heat. Upstairs in the house there was a room for the meetings to be held in."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… in his rocking chair by the big pot-bellied stove in the middle of the floor and didn’t move around very fast.” Reynolds also describes Elisha…"

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

"… X 18’ front room (which contained a Hampden cook stove), a 10’ X 10’ bedroom, and an 8’ X 10’ pantry."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Sometimes I built a fire in a long stove, using odd pieces of discarded shovel blocks.” Everyone used the same long-handled dipper to drink from the…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… just in the rear of the tents, on rusty cook-stoves set up on a few boards. -Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 8/23/1884 Life behind Wabanaki…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Ayers stopped and helped me unload. Set up stove etc. I built a fire and then with Ayers went down to his house where with my wife and child and I…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"Rumford experienced numerous expensive fires. The huge piles of pulpwood that were stored on the grounds of the International Paper Company and the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"I had- we had a kerosene stove from camping. So we had lots of camping equipment. So we did get our cooler out and we did get our stove out."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The store became a “nucleus for wholesale trade in grain, wool, apples, eggs and maple syrup.” In 1872, the first refrigerated rail car came to…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Acadian Archives

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"The first kids to arrive at school would load the stove with firewood gathered by the boys. Some of the schools were even labeled as unfit for…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… but also made commercial products such as stoves. The boot industry was also well established at this time."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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