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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Door of Brick Inn. Notice the complex brick work around the entrance. (photo taken in 2020) X Who actually turned a one-family home into…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"A large, modern brick building was constructed on Elm Street and opened in 1911. It is named for Moses W."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"Several projects that may have used those bricks were in the works: Charles Bulfinch, a prominent Boston architect and principal in the Broad Street…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"The Carr O’Brien brick building on the opposite corner of Wadsworth Street and Route One, directly adjacent to the prison grounds, was built in 1852…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Index

"… Page Agriculture - Main Page Bob Marley - People Brick Inn - Places Brief History - Main Page Carolyn Stone - People Chester Greenwood - People…"

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

"… would come into Burnt Coat Harbor and collect brick sized cut stone. Quarry rails, Swan's Island, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"… including the General Store and the Old Twin Brick Store Buildings. Buckfield also had many different practices including a dentist and a doctor."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Today, the ice industry no longer exists. The reason why the ice industry shut down was that water pollution was affecting the quality of the ice…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Today, the ice industry no longer exists. The reason why the ice industry shut down was that water pollution was affecting the quality of the ice…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"… Village for his businesses – he preferred brick. He had foresight in construction because his buildings had solid bases, which could be expanded…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… in Hallowell in 1905 and occupied one of the brick buildings belonging to the Kennebec Reality Company."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"He moved to Carthage to make bricks at $11.50 a month. He returned to Hartford to build a stone wall 100 rods long in eight weeks for $100."

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"The building was made of wood with a brick foundation. Charles Weiner became the president of this establishment, and David Haskell was the treasurer."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Places

"… rich stories to be told, a few of them include: Brick Inn Farmington's First Grist Mill Franklin County Agricultural Fair Lowell's General Store…"

Historic Hallowell - The Johnson Shoe Bros.

"… soon found, A building made from wood with a brick foundation, Which was the start of a Hallowell sensation."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"… construction of Strathglass Park, a group of brick homes for the workers of the area. The Rumford Falls Realty (an outgrowth of the Rumford Falls…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Ireland, England, came to build the dams, canals, brick structures, and other buildings on the Island, and manage the mills."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"Agry built his house of bricks on Second Street, two houses north of the U.S. Post Office, which is on Winthrop Street and still stands today."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to fly around his head as Brown ran to the other end of the mill."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… that traveled into West Peru village to service a brick factory and other businesses. A pavilion for movies and dances, a starch factory, doctors’…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"A boot and shoe factory, a brick mill, a sawmill and a clothespin factory opened, and other businesses that followed also flourished because people…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"That small brick structure set back away from the road. The flames however crossed Main Street and took the Baptist Church, stayed on the west side…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners, aquaducts etc., etc., etc."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… of lighthouse construction dictated a new solid brick tower, equipped with the most modern apparatus."