Maine Memory Network

Brick Store Museum

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Lithgow Public Library

"… is constructed of gray Norridgewock granite, blocked symmetrically over the windows and entrance."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"… simple little dress is made of a coarse cotton, block printed with a brown background, with a red (madder) and blue (indigo) floral pattern."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… churches, public buildings, and commercial blocks. Notable extant examples of his work in Portland include the West Mansion on the Western…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… 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…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"In the block adjacent to Williams Brothers stood a fish market, paint shop, movie and dance hall and an ice cream shop owned by E. M. Randlett."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"This switchboard was located on Plumly Block, which now is the area where Rite Aid is located today."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"The White Mountains were covered by heavy ice, blocking 850 miles of trails and roads. All that ice from the storm destroyed power lines, which…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"Sparmakers fashioned masts, booms and yardarms. Blocks and tackle (the running rigging and gear used to work the sails of the boat) were configured…"

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 1 of 3

"An entire block was destroyed by this huge fire. Also, it destroyed many business, and left three different secret societies without a place to meet."

Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… Historical Society Once these building blocks were put in place, the Village’s southern and western borders were assured that they would join…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… in 1852-53 with a four story brick commercial block that burned in the Great Fire of 1866. The site is now occupied by a small park."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… for houses, churches, schools, business blocks, and factories. Most of this work was in the Lewiston-Auburn area."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… confusion which for so long acted as a block to European expansion would be a false sense of continuity and precedent which would be used to erase…"

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

"The Kimball block housed Harrison Kimball’s grocery store. Reminiscing about the village in 1901, Emily Phillips Reynolds said that the store was “a…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"SCALES BLOCK AND BANK SQUARE Scales Buildings, Guilford, ca. 1880Guilford Historical Society This photograph shows the beginning of the Scales…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… A: It was pretty incredible that roads were blocked off with trees that had fallen over. And we had a couple of trees in our yard that we couldn’t…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

""A puking baby could build better boats out of blocks!" one man on the expedition is quoted as saying."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library

"… the Rural Development and a Community Development Block grant for that purpose.  However that proved to be too costly an endeavor, particularly as…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… a small drug store in 1875, called the Hobart Block. It was located on the north end of the bridge."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"The bank made a lease with Scales Block until 1902 when the lease was terminated. The bank was only broken into once and $200 was stolen in nickels…"

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

"… long stove, using odd pieces of discarded shovel blocks.” Everyone used the same long-handled dipper to drink from the pail of fresh water."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"Block burned down this evening about eleven." The architecture indicates that the current building was then reconstructed upon the original…"