Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Blizzard Poems

"… plow’s success died down difficult transportation troubled vehicles Deaths 56 seamen, 5 others on the Turnpike, and 2 lobstermen By Emma Wilson"

Owls Head Transportation Museum

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Seashore Trolley Museum

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Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"Railroads and motor vehicles replaced Kennebec River steamboat traffic just as the granite industry gave way to concrete and steel."

Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"… Free Library Ice Storm, Emergency Vehicles, Hallowell, 1998Hubbard Free Library The Hallowell Fire Station is within walking distance of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Public Library

"… Heritage Project has provided the perfect vehicle to translate the purposeful vision of the Library's 19th Century founders to its 21st Century…"

Millinocket Fire Department

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… of Islesboro and for twenty years, no private vehicles were seen on the island. However, on March 17 of 1933, amidst much controversy between the…"

Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades

"… my family would have to travel south to get a vehicle. It affected the future because starting the dealership brought other dealerships to town in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"… within the park, were open to walkers, bicycles, skiers and, of course, carriages -- but no motor vehicles. Twentieth-Century Community Life"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… have included upholstery and the production of vehicle license plates. Inmates worked in gardens, first at a location adjoining the prison, and…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 2 of 4

"As a vehicle of expression, the T-shirt has since moved on to its present position as the message T-shirt or graphic tee we know in the 2020s."

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"The innovation of these transporting vehicles has changed the outlook of the world. When the car was first created it was an outbreak across the…"

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

"This vessel could transport seven to eight vehicles, opening up a new era of island history. The ferry service operates out of Bass Harbor for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… wharf, rusticators found the place “alive with vehicles and tooters for the hotels, who swept them up in buckboards and whirled them at a gallop to…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"The bears had arrived in two vehicles, one a sort of pick-up truck with a cage attached on the body and the other a small "two-bear trailer" pulled…"

Seal Cove Auto Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"… shop there and you can tell because there are vehicles parked in front of the building in almost every picture we found for Solomon’s Store and the…"

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… week a family got depended on how important the vehicle was. People were encouraged to ride together in cars."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"He is most famous for inventing a vehicle that changed the logging business, the Lombard Steam Log Hauler."

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"… a passport there and you can also register your vehicle and many other things. My parents register their cars there every year."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"… of accidents between automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles. In 1910 Scarborough citizens, following Portland’s lead, voted to limit the speed of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… of the State of Eastern Lands became the vehicle for veterans to obtain new lands in the Province of Maine (then owned by Massachusetts)."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… and farm equipment also became part of a taxi and vehicle storage business established in 1926 by John’s son, Richard."