Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, Sweet Water, About Me, Child Of Mine, Room To Grow, and The Conversation Begins are her titles."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… the lumber, but Bangor was also the last deep water port on the Penobscot, with the Kenduskeag Stream ideally located nearby."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"Speaking of transportation issues, Hallowell had also lost the bridge connecting Hallowell to Chelsea."

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

"… the ice would be loaded onto schooners for transport to market. As the granite industry was coming into its own, another started to flourish --…"

Historic Hallowell - The "World of Mirth" Carnival in Hallowell

"With all the fuss about bringing train transportation back, possibly carnivals coming by train may start again."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 2 of 2

"… or Hallowell had to find their own means of transportation. It cost five cents to go across on the ferry and five cents to return."

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"Unfortunately schools, businesses, transportation systems, and the government were disrupted by the ice storm."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… good source of food, power for mills, and ease of transportation and shipping. An accomplished builder, Benjamin Wheeler is known to be the first…"

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… popular in North America for coastal and river transport. They could go from Hallowell to as far away as Cuba."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"Whole frames would be cut according to requirements and then shipped north for construction and assemblage on the shores along Water Street. <-Prev."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… the present” Past: Steamboats were used for the transportation of goods and people across and up and down the rivers and lakes of Maine and any…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"Ferry & transported items Mobile by Megan Reny X Works Cited Lincoln Historical Society. "Transportation." The Pictorial History of Lincoln…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"It was a way of transporting a large amount of logs to mills by floating them down rivers. Logs were also transported across lakes using booms."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… develops quickest where raw materials meet easy transportation and ready energy, both human and otherwise."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Improved water and rail transport speeded and increased distribution of raw materials, finished goods—and fashion news—to remote or newly settled…"

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

"… Ponds, sending the wood down the streams for transport to the saw mill.   1950s video of logging on the Chain Lakes from the collection of Roger…"

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…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"… Mill X Before bridges on the island, transportation was provided onto the island by a ferry. The ferry was not safe, nor time efficient."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… Historical Society Lumbering required transportation of the saw logs to the mill and the river was one of the main highways, the railroad being…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… and the old one sold for a dollar to house a new transportation company which brought excise tax dollars and jobs; a fitness center opened; library…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Society The rivers provided an excellent form of transportation for these original inhabitants. The Sandy River is “commodious for canoeing."

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

"The train delivering mail got the mail to and from places quicker than foot or other terms of transportation."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"The washout also detoured the freight and passengers being transported from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Boston, Massachusetts."