Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"The early band stand was built in 1874 by a fine carpenter, Henry Sprague, to be used by local musicians, such as Charles Wheeler’s earlier band."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… DHS Coll.#122, 1874-1946 The Early History of Dixfield Maine, DHS and Dixfield Bicentennial Committee, 1976 Nancy Carpenter http://www.ioof.org/"

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

"… serving as their own doctors, grocers, tailors, carpenters, fishermen, entertainment, and clergy. People spent their days toiling long hours to…"

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

"… her grandfather, Asa Clough, Jr., was ship’s carpenter and master builder. Some of the vessels built in Blue Hill during the first half of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"… sheds, a modeling and sculpture studio, carpenter's shop, blacksmith's shop, stable, wagon house, storehouse, boiler-house with stack and a rail…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… lumber and produced cut lumber and moldings for carpenters and cabinetmakers, and also produced wood-block patterns for the oil-cloth factories."

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

"When Cushing died in 1840, Overlock, after building a house for himself on Knox Street, set up his own house building business. Edward W."

Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

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

"Ship’s joiners and carpenters had their choice of jobs, and more accomplished finish carpenters were in high demand."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Local carpenters and shipbuilders and local families built and owned the new hotels and the supporting businesses."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Walter P. Carpenter was the chosen delegate to represent the town at the Constitutional Convention held in Portland to form the Constitution for the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"At this time he could be hired as a carpenter that remodeled houses or buildings. Andrew Johnson "Create a statement and prove or disprove it with…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"… steel and iron-worker, boot and shoe maker(2),carpenter, physician and surgeon, fruit grower, dealers in livestock, and a few years later a used…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… Seal Harbor was settled six years later, when carpenter William Roberts built a log cabin close to the beach."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… August 2, 1923, by the Majestic theater’s stage carpenter, Eli Roy. The fire seemed to come from the stage area."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… at one time, employing fifty or seventy-five ship carpenters; with five or six woodcasters continually running to Boston, and even a larger number…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… and the first summer 80 people-- schoolteachers, carpenters, sawyers, clam diggers, children, architects and retirees--came together to perform the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… also talented furniture makers and “joiners” [carpenters]. They brought that talent to the Sandy River Valley when they migrated prior to 1800."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"Some people are carpenters and woodworkers, while others make wedding cakes, take pictures, write books, and create works of art."

Prince Memorial Library

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… who harvested the timber, and to blacksmiths, carpenters, ship-chandlers and other suppliers of materials needed to construct the yards and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"In 1880 Hosea worked as a carpenter in Lynn, Massachusetts. He had applied for pension in 1865; then in 1900 his wife applied. Pvt. Abner H."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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