Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4

"… collection’s finest and widest crinolines is a boat necked short sleeved teal and pink silk plaid with a set of detachable long sleeves, fringed…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… did brisk business, with Roberts building pinkey boats for local fishing and Clement making fish barrels, washtubs and pails."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"Did your dad work? He was a boat builder so he had to find some other jobs to help out with money. Were kids affected? I think they all were."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… Mount Desert’s families who farmed, fished, built boats, or participated in some of all of the year around occupations, the Savages constructed…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… to make boards, staves, and shingles needed for boats, dwellings, barns, fences, and barrels. They cut hay in the salt marshes and turned ancient…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Investigate tidal pools or coastal caverns? Boat the bays or lakes (powered by oar, paddle, sail or steam)? Brave an island tour in a buckboard…"

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"Voice of Miriam Kelley Doherty 2 min 10 sec  “The boat was gunwales down, and as she turned on her heel, rolled in the water, and sank beneath…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"… Historical Society Early in the century, boat builders built coastal schooners and barges in Warren, north of Thomaston, for transport and trade…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"… place at cottages on the lake where swimming, boating, and fishing were easily accessible. Public BeachStrong Historical Society A public…"

Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… of monitoring and caring for David Rockefeller’s boats and waterfront property soon after this decision."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"The Tradition Continues...... Webber's Cove Boat Yard in East Blue Hill, owned and operated by Matt Cousins, 2010."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"… recreation, but other people liked to trap and to boat. When settlers first came to Strong there were mostly Indians."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… ropes fashioned to make a raft, or they could be boats, large or small, which could carry men and provisions from one shore to the other."

Westport Island History Committee

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… as one local put it, “A birch canoe was a good boat if there was an Indian in it.” Passamaquoddy hunting guide Joe Mell, ca. 1895."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"… masonry contractor, three granite quarries and a boat builder. There were two pharmacies, two barbers, two clothiers, four tailors, six dressmakers…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… ship building to put in between the planks of the boats floor. When they shipped all of the items it would all come from Boston."

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"Bangor became the lumber capital of the world. boat pulling logs across Moosehead Lake X Logging started with the contractor- he selected the…"

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

"… rigging and gear used to work the sails of the boat) were configured and set up by riggers. A ropewalk situated on the eastern bank of Mill…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"The trip was anything but routine and the boat she was on was torpedoed and sunk. Mattie and other survivors spent ten hours in a lifeboat before…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… favorite apple tree, Ada Martin gymnastics, gun boat Mahoning, McClellan supporters, ideal homestead, former slave   Part 4, pages 57-76…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"Hundreds of trees were knocked down. Also, boats and the Kennebec Yacht Club were endangered. The public utilities were destroyed and repair crews…"