Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"Both pot-ash and pearl-ash were worth more than any other product a farmer could produce, and large quantities were shipped from Hallowell until the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI

"Bar Harbor's Gilded Century: Opulence to Ashes, 1850-1950. Camden, Me.: Down East, 2009. Print. Research and exhibit by Taylor Thomas-Marsh, Gina…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - About Us

"About Us Up from the ashes: Swan's Island has learned to appreciate its historic resources after seeing them threatened."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"Baskets were made locally, usually by Native Americans. The strips of wood used to make these baskets came from ash trees."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… stretching hides, braiding sweetgrass, preparing ash strips, weaving baskets and, of course, socializing and playing games."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… to? The products shipped were: granite, wood ashes, lumber, sheep, chickens, and ice, according to Sam Webber, local historian."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"The slate was made of clay or volcanic ash. Slate, a rock formed from shale and mined by quarrying, had low heat and not very much pressure put on it."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… reports that railroad carloads of broomcorn, ash lumber from Bangor and broom handles were received."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"… Schools Like The Phoenix Rising Out Of The Ashes By: Rex Webb, 7th & 8th Grade Social Studies Teacher and 8th Grade Students Piscataquis…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… hilltops were covered by sugar maple, beech, and ash, while the valleys held spruce, fir, and cedar."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"Half of the eastern side of the island was in ashes. But within a few years, new buildings sprang up on the foundations of the old, though this time…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"-Opulence to Ashes: Bar Harbor’s Gilded Century, by Lydia B. Vandenbergh & Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Jordan Pond House staff, ca."

Guilford, Maine - EXHIBITS

"… Exhibit--"Like The Phoenix Rising Out Of The Ashes"--tells the history of Guilford schools and survival after fires."

Abbe Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"They produced ash tool handles, canoes and paddles, and the ash baskets for the potato industry. With mechanization of logging and potato farming…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… officials guided the city’s Phoenix rise from the ashes, and sought to incorporate a centralized park along the banks of the Kenduskeag Stream to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… of a fireplace screen were recovered from the ashes. Fireplace HardwareFarmington Historical Society The influence of the Titcomb family is…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… a variety of wood, “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"It is thought that the smoke and ash created a “volcanic winter.” For the next 5 years, many of the Farmington settlers were disheartened and left…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… Pulp and Paper and began to manufacture “black ash” or sodium carbonate pulp. From 1899 to 1908, the mill built its reputation on the manufacturing…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… is to be sustained [principally] by oak and brown ash piles…. If ice freshets do not disturb them, and fire and other forces leave them alone, the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… for clams, pick sweet grass for baskets and split ash for containers. This practice continued into the 1930s and ‘40s, until it gradually died out."