Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"Levy and Abbie Murphy Winter, in Lynn, Massachusetts, where the Winters resided. Throughout their marriage, Richardson and Carrie Johnson raised four…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Around 1869 and 1870, the winter weather in Massachusetts and New York was warm, so they bought their ice from Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Around 1869 and 1870, the winter weather in Massachusetts and New York was warm, so they bought their ice from Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… but with the warming temperatures in the late winter, early spring, the winter ice on the river melted at a fast rate."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"Guilford Fire Station Guilford Fire Station X Text by Asia Wohlfeil, Saide Morin, and Aliza Boone Images from the Guilford Historical Society…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… RailroadJesup Memorial Library Bring half-worn winter garments, with boots ditto, to be prepared for tramping and excursions."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… first "block" built, the first bank, the first fire company, first fraternal lodge, first high school, first newspaper, first city directory, first…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… affair through above-ground pipes; in the winter one needed to fetch fresh water by taking buckets down to the brook next to the house and there…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Welcome

"… its past, and the lives of those who once called Scarborough home. Sunset on Scarborough Marsh X A Winter View of Scarborough Marsh X"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"The wind carried the fire along the west side of Front Street burning down everything in its path, almost impossible to stop."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… usually about eight weeks in spring and eight in winter -- four months in all. Kids began at age six or seven, and it was common for someone to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"Cranberry Lodge (Formerly Harbor Cottage) Northeast Harbor Maine, Winter 2009Northeast Harbor Library The Old Ell is Born..."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village Schools

"… her own janitor and kept the fire going in the winter as I'm sure that Eleanor Wendell Taylor also had to do."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"… Society This ambrotype captures a sunny winter day on Middle Street in Portland during the 1850s."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… Historical Society “We are enjoying (?) a winter such as the oldest inhabitant never saw.” So read the January 18 1934 Lubec Herald."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"During the winter months when there was snow, sleigh cars replaced the horse cars. Some time after Portland became electrified in the 1880s, the…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Turner House in Winter, Guilford, ca. 1890Guilford Historical Society In December of 1901, the river displayed its fickle nature."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Ski Club, founded in the early 1920s, offered winter Nordic and Cross Country skiing, and hosted an annual winter carnival, first at its ski jump…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"1910. Winter Carnival arrivals, New Sweden, 1936New Sweden Historical Society The railroads would not only offer a means of transporting…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… 1955Guilford Historical Society This is a Winter scene of Bank Square and the Elm Street business district in the 1950s."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… to play anywhere, sliding down the streets in winter, exploring the surrounding woods, and playing in the brook in summer."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… and leased marsh lots to farmers to raise hay for winter fodder. To increase marsh salt hay production, he initiated one of the first diking…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"Summers were spent living alone and winters with relatives in New Hampshire. In 1961, Litchfield celebrated his 90th birthday at his niece’s home in…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"Occasionally, when winter fishing or fishing in very deep water, one line had two traps (doubles); but most of the time only single traps were on a…"