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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Men would guide blocks of ice towards the conveyor belt that lifted the ice into the ice houses for shipping later."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Men would guide blocks of ice towards the conveyor belt that lifted the ice into the ice houses for shipping later."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Green's Department Store

"In 1988, Dana Cassidy purchased the block. The old building that was once Green’s still stands. Today the old building serves as a place for several…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2

"Sadie bought big blocks of soap and sliced them with a knife. She then took the soap and dropped it in the tub to let it dissolve and make suds."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Building Boom, early 19th century

"… Society North side of Main Street Business Block, Looking west to east, Thomaston, Maine 2008Thomaston Historical Society By 1830, the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"… siding boards at intervals to simulate stone blocks. Oftentimes, sand was applied with paint to imitate the texture of stone."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Quarrying

"… as the "New York" or "Philadelphia" sized paving blocks. They were transported to and used mostly in Boston and New York City."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin in Spanish cloak, Bangor, 1846

"… cloth one of Davis & Gilligin in the circular block for 15$ which was as nice a one as I could see and it came to my boot tops perhaps below & as I…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Division Street School, Bangor, 1865

"… no paint Resivoir scuttles cast iron set in granit square blocks." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… church was on French Street, opposite the Hammatt Block. John D. Towle of Boston designed the Italianate structure."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block. You would have to cut it to fit the ice box and then carry it up to the…"

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… to sink the Axis!" Protecting Our Community Block Warden ArmbandBangor Historical Society After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Block Wardens…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"As many as 50,000 paving blocks would be shipped on one schooner, usually loaded by hand. Sometimes as many as 10 three-masted schooners were lined…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… extracted by means of "rising wedges," levers, block and tackle and wood bracing. Here the largest slab cut from the quarry is raised to be placed…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861

"Blacksmith shops, ships’ chandlers, block makers and sawmills lined the south side of Water Street, while the north side was lined with houses of…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"The foundation was made out of granite blocks, wood and posts and beams. The house was Victorian influenced and was one-and-a-half stories tall…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… and cabinetmakers, and also produced wood-block patterns for the oil-cloth factories. Later it produced wooden lasts for the shoe factories."

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"The Nog was a small piece or a block of wood, and the Oker was used to mark red chalk on wood. The Racing Knife marked or shaped a cut of an object."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"His business at one point occupied an entire city block, employed 100 production workers, and 20 hand-copiers who addressed envelopes off-site."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of East New Portland

"… bridge was a five-span structure, with granite block piers and abutments supporting five timber kingpost trusses."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… shipbuilder and owner, built the Carr & O’Brien block in 1852 on the former site of the Paine store at the corner of Wadsworth and Main Streets, in…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… established a shoe factory in the Carr O’Brien Block at the Upper Corner to boost the flagging economy."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"… the women’s section were covered with shields to block visual views in both directions. It was not until 1935 that women prisoners were removed to…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"… year when a fire broke out in the Carr O’Brien Block next door, location of the George's National Bank at the time."