Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… the one of the most significant and long-lasting waterfront industries in Downeast Maine. Looking into McCurdy’s in 1986. Jacob B."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The waterfronts of both towns provided the perfect location for the industry, and a working landscape of canneries, smokehouses, and other businesses…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… of factories that would eventually line Lubec’s waterfront. Soon thereafter E.W. Brown and Company built the first factory on Water Street."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Kelley, druggist; Pike’s Market; A. Rowell; A.B. Sumner and Co.; Staples & Son, general merchant; F.Y."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Passamaquoddy Bay – new technology and expanding markets 1893 • SS Cumberland made its first voyage from Boston to Lubec, inaugurating steam ship…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… the bank of the river, just upriver of where the Waterfront Market on Wadsworth Street now stands. Knox’s wastebook is riddled with references to…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Waterfront and downtown Bath, 1851Patten Free Library The boom time of the early and mid 1850s molded other aspects of Bath’s landscape as the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Lumber along waterfront, Bangor, ca. 1860Bangor Historical Society The settlement of a long-standing boundary dispute between the United States and…"