Maine Memory Network

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

"1910 with owner and workers posed is one example. Herring boxes and shooks at McCurdy's, Lubec, 1998Lubec Landmarks Herring boxes: The…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"During the season workers came from Campobello, Grand Manan, Deer Island, and towns throughout Washington County, many living in rows of company…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"He was also physically fit and was a very hard worker. Shep married a woman named Margarite Littlefield."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"… rising water caught many shoppers and downtown workers by surprise. Photo courtesy of the Bangor Daily News X 1976 February 2, 1976 was a warm…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… Society Enter Miss Adelaide Pearson, social worker, musician, world traveler, author, lecturer and founder of Blue Hill’s Rowantree Pottery."

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"… hurt or killed, and when you are a construction worker, you have to be careful and also try not to get hurt or killed because of the big machines…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… the units to housing for South Portland shipyard workers. Dunstan Observation Post, Scarborough, ca."

Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"That first year, workers produced about 15,000 pounds of cheese, which was sold mostly to Lewiston and Portland businesses for 15¢ a pound."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Fish factory workers, Swan's Island, ca. 1890Swan's Island Historical Society By the early 1900s there were six or more fish factories mostly on the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… Rumford Area Historical Society The many workers from Europe and Canada brought with them their Catholic heritages."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Mr. Park was an active temperance worker and an able correspondent of the local papers. An excerpt from his diary reads: I packed my goods, loaded…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… complexes housed many of the less well-paid workers of the mills. According to a Rumford Falls Times article of August 4, 1923 by a Mr."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"The closing of the mills would cost 561 workers their jobs and impact nearly half of the town’s tax income. Building of tissue mill, Lincoln, ca."

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

"Because of the increase of population, railroad workers felt that Stockholm needed its own railroad."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"She employed several workers to wash and iron the rusticators' clothing. Erlrie Holmes operated a clothing store and lived in the back with his…"

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

"The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for months clearing acres of heavily forested land to finally send the logs down the Penobscot River…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Shipyard workers, like sailors of the time, were fueled by a daily ration of grog, served at eleven o’clock."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… rain caused the soil to give way and the exposed workers abandoned their effort under fire from the men in the garrison."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"31, 1999, affecting about 200 workers and resulting in a $25 million charge to the company, mostly in the second quarter, to cover asset write-offs…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"Many of us followed the workers to the mill and there was John MacGregor, smiling at the door, holding an envelope for each man."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"There were also usually two workers per farm. When a mother fox didn’t take care of her young and a cat on the farm just had a litter, the owners…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Knight returned to his land with some workers, or two of his sons, burned some of the felled trees in preparation of a garden, and used others to…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"This included skilled nurses, social workers, home health aides, and physical, occupational, and speech therapists."