Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… cottages, Day Hill, Richards Avenue, Wills Block, Packard Block, to name a few. Ridlonville was a good place to live and raise children."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"With increased shipbuilding along Water Street, this location was found to be more convenient for trading, and new business blocks were built to…"

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"You would have to cut it to fit the ice box and then carry it up to the house. If they weren’t home they would leave the money on the corner of the…"

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…"

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

"It was not until 1935 that women prisoners were removed to the Women's Correctional Center in Skowhegan. Warden Joel Miller House, Main Street…"

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…"

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…"

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

"You would have to cut it to fit the ice box and then carry it up to the house. If they weren’t home they would leave the money on the corner of the…"

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."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"The Turner House was partially lost to fire in the year 1903. One hundred years later, in 2003, the Braeburn Hotel was completely lost to fire."

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…"

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…"

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…"

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."

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

"… was perched only on granite cornerstones and blocks had no central heat, just a large cook stove with copper hot water tank in the kitchen."

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…"

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

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

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…"

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

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

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."

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…"