Maine Memory Network

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

"Lastly, in 1979, it became a house for the elderly and remains that to this day. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library In…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"The trees, cars, houses and body’s of water covered with ice. Below freezing, people gathered to friends houses or the shelters that were provided…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Stereoptic Card of The Titcomb-Linscott House, Farmington, ca. 1890 Known for years as the Dr. Linscott House, this was the home of John & Lydia…"

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

"… mills to provide for both ship planking and house timbers. Ship’s joiners and carpenters had their choice of jobs, and more accomplished finish…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… wood structure with a stable, and Thomaston Bank, housed in a granite building, joined several small dry goods stores."

Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"The upper Weld Street area, which had very few houses until around 1942, was fairly flat. The wind swept fiercely across these plains before…"

Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"Administration transferred from the old Weeks House to the larger Payson house on Deering and State Streets in 1927, with Weeks transforming into a…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Middle Street’s small frame and brick houses and buildings, the domed granite Merchants Exchange, and the Second Parish Church have long vanished…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… renderings to help clients envision proposed houses and buildings. These artistic perspective drawings differ from the sets of working drawings…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"The Braeburn hotel, the Turner house, either way, the lots have housed people for just under one hundred years."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Project Partners

"… organized in 1925 and maintains the collections housed in the Capitolium, Lindsten Stuga, and Laden, as well as the monuments and old cemetery…"

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

"… Historical Society Summer at Asticou brought a house and lodging swap for most of the Savage family."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"The Fuller Foundry and Knickerbocker's Ice House are on the right. Captured logs and buildings on rafts belong to the Hallowell Steam and Boom…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… streets, cars, power lines, tree limbs and many houses without heat and power. It was beautiful and wonderful in a dangerous way."

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"Unmarked logs were free for the taking. Bunk houses with adjoining cook and mess shacks were erected on rafts and anchored on the Chelsea side of the…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 1 of 2

"The prominent Mowry house seen here was moved away from Lubec during the latter half of the 20th Century."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"He told the boys not to pick that apple, “or we’d get our butts kicked.” There was a window on the house facing the tree with the apple."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… assisted either on or off the farm, and a second house had to be procured to house all the destitute people in the city."

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

"… available to them at the City Opera House and other halls and venues downtown. Concerts, minstrel and vaudeville shows, oratories, chorales and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"Huge ice-storage houses were built along the river, and the harvest was stored packed in hay as well as sawdust, which would have been available in…"

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"People that lived in houses on River Street were forced to leave their homes. That afternoon, River Street was entirely flooded."

Maine Maritime Museum

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Belfast Historical Society

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