Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - White cotton dress with gigot sleeves, Portland, ca. 1828 - Page 1 of 2

"… fashion features included lowered waists, widened skirts, and enlarged sleeves. This dress includes an earlier example of the enlarged sleeve…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 2 of 2

"… waists, back gathers spreading to the side, widened skirts, and gradually enlarging sleeves, which became known as gigots."

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"A State highway construction plan proposed widening Water Street to a four-lane highway, by razing all the buildings between the Kennebec River and…"

Milbridge Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"… buildings on Main Street, replacing them and widening the road. The proposal did not pass. In 1928, the Village Improvement Society proposed to…"

Davistown Museum

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"The rear of the building was also widened. It had a shop in the bottom floor. Groups and organizations met at the Odd Fellows Hall."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… their whiskey.” Later when the Main Street was widened, and the Bonney Aqueduct Company was no more."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… along Water Street was removed when the road was widened. Other parts of the railroad have been covered up by houses and buildings, and some are…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… 2000s, the original section of the highway was widened from four to six lanes. The highway has been designated a national civil engineering…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… resulted in the construction of a viaduct and widened approach to the Carlton Bridge, thereby causing most of the gas stations on Vine Street to…"