Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Flour produced by his grist mill helped provide a more varied diet for area residents. In 1832 a canal connecting Johnson Bay and South Bay was dug…"

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

"… Fernwood Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Willing Workers. Bridge Clubs were also popular. Houses were cleaned from top to bottom in order to…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for months clearing acres of heavily forested land to finally send the logs down the Penobscot River…"

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

"Shipyard workers, like sailors of the time, were fueled by a daily ration of grog, served at eleven o’clock."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"You would insulate it with sawdust from the mills. That would go on until the ice house was full. Weston's Ox TeamHubbard Free Library…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"1910 with owner and workers posed is one example. Herring boxes and shooks at McCurdy's, Lubec, 1998Lubec Landmarks Herring boxes: The…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… Society Enter Miss Adelaide Pearson, social worker, musician, world traveler, author, lecturer and founder of Blue Hill’s Rowantree Pottery."

Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… to rely on islanders as cooks, interior home workers and nursemaids for children. F.S. Pendleton and Company Store, interior, Islesboro, ca."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… of land on which he built a grist mill and saw mill, plotted half acre lots and planned streets as the foundation for the settlement of Fairbanks…"

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

"Because of the increase of population, railroad workers felt that Stockholm needed its own railroad."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"City workers took a 12.5 percent pay cut, and Bangor actively sought participation in every federal program to spur employment."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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