Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - John Calvin Stevens House

"… classic shingle style home sits high above the Kennebec River town of Hallowell, Maine. Note the turret and open, rounded porch which are drawn…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"The flood hit the community on the night of March 13, 1936. In Augusta, the flood stage for the Kennebec River was up to 13 feet."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"… like “Ice Mania”, covered the shores of the Kennebec River. Ice men are guiding ice blocks toward the steam-powered conveyor belt."

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"When they got shipped down the Kennebec, they went to the Steam and Boom Company in Hallowell. The Steam and Boom Company collected all the logs and…"

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

"… shut down, three years after changing the name to Kennebec River Mills. In December of 1895, a violent storm ripped off a section of the roof of…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… Cotton was delivered to the Cotton Mill on the Kennebec river to Hallowell by sailing ship. Once the ship was at the dock, the cotton was brought…"

Historic Hallowell - Captains and Their Ships

"… on Schooners and Steamers, including Tankers within this paragraph. Socony Tanker, Kennebec River, Hallowell, 1957Hubbard Free Library"

Historic Hallowell - Our Journey Home

"… of places -- a wilderness area well inland on the Kennebec River. The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make it more than a…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"… the city of Bombay India, and the hook in the Kennebec River just below the point. There is no documentation for either theory."

Historic Hallowell - The Blizzard - Works Cited

"I wish for those days of the great blizzard Kennebec Journal Central ME: 2002 Chicago Blizzard of 1979. n.d. 10 Feb."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"In 1887, Payson changed the name to Kennebec River Mills. Row House, Hallowell, ca. 1935 Hallowell mill workers lived in The Row House on Second…"

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… highway, by razing all the buildings between the Kennebec River and Water Street, including the commercial areas known as Merchant’s Row and…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"In Hallowell, a point jutting into the Kennebec River known as Bombahook was a convenient location. The peninsula, known later as Sheppard's Point…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"Ship's Knee, Kennebec River, Hallowell, ca.1853Hubbard Free Library As reported in the September 24, 2001, Kennebec Journal, Kevin Pomerleau and…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"… were many shipbuilding spots on the shore of Kennebec River in Hallowell. Then in the 1900s, oil was brought to the waterfront in tanks."

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"Everybody would carry the leather buckets to the Kennebec River, fill them with water, and lug them back up to the burning house to douse the fire."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"… to port during a severe storm at the mouth of the Kennebec River. In 1801, Agry moved with his new wife to Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"The Kennebec Journal had articles of the ships that came in and out of Hallowell because many people owned a part of the profit."

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies

"… of places -- a wilderness area well inland on the Kennebec River. The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make it more than a…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Click here to learn more about ice cutting on the Kennebec. Around 1869 and 1870, the winter weather in Massachusetts and New York was warm, so they…"

Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

"Ledew. Historic Hallowell. Hallowell, ME: Kennebec Journal           Print Shop, 1962. Vanderweide, Harry."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… Free Library Logs would float down the Kennebec River to the steam-powered Milliken Sawmill that operated in the late 1800’s and the early 1900‘s…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… Ice houses were a big part of the industry on the Kennebec. There were three icehouses in Hallowell located on Summer Street, the Vaughan Stream…"

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… book, “A Maritime History of Bath, Maine, and the Kennebec River Region” he writes that in 1851, Captain Job Pierce, who was an experienced whale…"