Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… the foot of Toddy Pond in Orland, where the state boat landing is now located. In the 1880s he settled on Cunningham Ridge in Surry with his wife…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… around 10:30 at night, there would be lobster boat lights flashing all along the Neck and the boats would come in, off-load liquor, and load it…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… X By the mid 1980s, a municipal office and fire department had been built near the school and after that, the town continued to invest in…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… company permission the Kennebec Proprietors fired him as agent in 1761. By that time, Goodwin had bought a full company share and moved with his…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… a space big enough -- a barn, a warehouse, or a boat house -- it was likely someone had hammered a basketball hoop to the wall."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot

"… Smoke and Soot Aftermath of Harmon's Corner Fire, 1911McArthur Public Library Headline about the fire which consumed Biddeford's City…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 2 of 2

"Wharfs were used for launching boats off of a ramp. The boats that were launched from the wharf would occasionally transfer passengers from one place…"

Historic Hallowell - Ship Parts

"… two years, until they were ready to be put on a boat. Sails were made by long, thin strips of cloth that were woven together by hand (until the…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… village on a little fertile plateau where the fires built a niche in the forest close by the banks of a beautiful bay."

Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus

"… District of Maine, and a three dollar fare on a boat could get a man from Massachusetts to the Kennebec valley."

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Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… Free Library Late in the fall of 1625 a small boat with seven men aboard slowly made its way up the Kennebec River."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"When the new Chelsea bridge was built, some big boats couldn't get through. So in time, the waterfront was used less and less."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"They arrived separately in Chebacco boats in the summer of 1761 and settled along the Sound. Somes built a log cabin along the shore in what is now…"

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… "On that day the bark Anna of Bremen sent a boat to investigate a capsized schooner off Bermuda in a region swept by heavy gales two days earlier…"

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"Both boats were bought by the government, hauled into the Casco Bay, and sank in the harbor as protection of enemy subs."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXHIBITS

"… introduction to Biddeford and Saco's tumultuous fire history. By Dean Thomas Smalley, University of New England SHIPBUILDING IN BIDDEFORD…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 15 of 17

"… Saco were running on Tuesday, and 100 guns were fired in honor of the fall of Richmond. In Saco in the evening the Town Hall was thrown open, which…"

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… from Mount Desert Island was loaded directly onto boats in the deep water of Somes Sound and shipped to cities along the Atlantic Coast.Mount…"

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…"

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."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"So many boats had to be built quickly, that the boat builders had to use fresh, or green, wood to build them."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… the Vaughan Stream, and where the Hallowell boat landing is today. They served as the holding place of the ice before they went to other states or…"