Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"… operation from Cecil McCready in 1946 and ran the business until the mid 60s. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today

"As a new business venture, the firm currently produces solar-powered generators designed for, among other things, disaster relief, a project based on…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House

"Thomaston’s Captain Samuel Watts and business entrepreneur Edward O’Brien both ran successful shipyards."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"… Motors was making just enough cars to stay in business because they were making tanks to help the war effort."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… Dunn & Elliot (D&E), established a sailmaking business, making sails for the major shipbuilding firm of Chapman and Flint on the Georges River."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Many businesses seemed to be “changing hands” or were “merging” but most remained and improved their services – including the bakery, hardware store…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 534-603

"… were quite ill with measles; he looked for a new business prospect, worked as assistant assessor for Ward 6 where many Irish immigrants lived…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 452-534

"… on Center Street -- with illustrations, and business dealings and failures, including Pendleton & Ross, Shaw & Merrill furniture manufacturers…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin, Bangor, ca. 1868

"A bookkeeper and accountant for a number of businesses, Martin and his wife, Clara Cary, had six children."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Hampden House Bar, 1837

"Increase S. Sanger to learn the apothecary business. Sanger bought the Hampden House and young Martin worked there until Sanger sold the business."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store interior, Bangor, 1862

"… an accountant, had worked for various other businesses in Hampden and Bangor since he was a boy. He obtained funds from Edwin B."

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

"Always interested in ways to expand his business he began to advertise a product for the relief of heart trouble which he manufactured under the name…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 362-451

"… and, eventually, Martin's departure from the business, joining Pendleton & Ross, ship chandlers, and their business difficulties."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"1880Guilford Historical Society Elm Street Businesses, Guilford, ca. 1880Guilford Historical Society Elm Street businesses in the late 1880s."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"Without these few businesses, Bath would not be as great of a place as it is today. When the businesses were brought into the new block, most of the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… Daily, Knox kept rough entries of his various business dealings in wastebooks, ledgers that contained rough accountings of his business dealings."

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

"… and shoemaker, then branching out into several businesses. He is one of Thomaston’s earliest shipbuilders, credited with building at least two…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"… Historical Society He needed to move part of the business here to be closer to the source of the raw materials required, primarily white birch…"

Historic Hallowell - The Johnson Shoe Bros.

"The business had permanently come to a close, It stands in Hallowell history as we should all know. Mari Smith"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Phair House, the Bellstead and the Social Security Building

"… “Starch King” because he was in the potato starch business. He was born in New York in 1850. In 1856, Phair and his mother moved to Presque Isle."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

"In 1920, business peaked when the railroad carried 684,000 passengers. The train also transported forest products and potatoes."

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

"In addition to lime burning, Knox busied several local men with associated industries such as cutting wood for the kilns, or making hoop poles for…"

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

"… on Knox Street, set up his own house building business. Edward W. Robinson House, Knox Street, Thomaston, Maine c."

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

"… Eaton, Knox “went largely into the brickmaking business, near the water below the upper wharf” and his wastebook clearly demonstrates that Boston…"