Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn Harbor Cottage at Asticou Northeast Harbor Maine ca."

Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"… the tracks, the white house with the big set of barns is what is now the Lincoln Historical Society Museum."

Lincoln, Maine - High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903

"His large barn is also shown. Town Meetings were once held in this building. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

New Gloucester Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… all the lumber was used in Lincoln for homes, barns, businesses, and other needed buildings. In later years, after all the timber around the lake…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He had three large barns and two great orchards. In Patten, he had a street named after him called Dearborn Street."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"… of two daguerreotypes were taken, the ell and the barn had already sprouted medieval pinnacles, and the house was awaiting a similar treatment."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"They stored the ice in big barns with hay and sawdust. The hay and sawdust preserved the ice for long periods of time."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Gordon walk out behind the barn to his car. Keith noticed a white sheet of paper out of the corner of his eye. “Hey Pa, Mr."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… school houses, three mills, 163 houses, and 151 barns. The Colony Expands Into Neighboring Townships The town of Westmanland (just west of New…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Illustrations

"… of purposes and structures, his ideal house and barn. He drew the first balloon ascension in Bangor, the first street railroad, the first gunboat…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Barn raisings were the first social events, consisting of fiddle playing, dancing, and plenty of good food."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… going to church “looked like a bird-of-paradise in a barn-yard.” From Bar Harbor Days, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, 1887. Continue to Big Thunder"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… players may have caused the fire in the hay barn, perhaps from a carelessly discarded cigarette."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"An ell and large dairy barn were added in the 1860s creating a connected farm, which was a typical New England architectural style."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"(Surry tax records, 1878). In the old barn there were nameplates marking the inhabitants of the old stalls: Bessy, MaryAnne, Bossy."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"… Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns. By 1902 they had 150 men working with a daily output of 50,000 shingles and 15,000 other…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… for their workers' families, a stable and two barns. In 1902 the company had 150 workers working with a daily output of fifty thousand shingles and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… which was to include 5 acres of cleared land, a barn built by the town (thirty feet by forty feet in size and having 13 1/2 foot studs) as well as…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Whittier, Kathryn H., ed. North Yarmouth, Maine: First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, 2006. Hurd, Holly."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… in blue hill] and other public buildings, 15 barns and sheds, 10 stern mouldings and heads, 230 coffins and 5 stores….” Fishing."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four vessels on the stocks building at one time…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… and hauled my load up to the hill beyond Babcocks barn when his steers swung and broke my sled tongue."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… between the two buildings, is a large carriage barn. This was later the home of Attorney John P. White."