Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Draining the quarry

"… season was over each year, the rain filled up the pit and iced over in the winter to make a popular skating pond."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"My grandmother cooked on a fire pit and got water from a well. My parents raised chickens for money and for meat."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… Harbor held an annual Old-Timers basketball game, pitting the village team against the "old-timers" outfitted in long-johns, to raise money to give…"

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

"… for use, and in removing loom from the gravel pit and spreading it upon the waste land near by, and such other work as we could procure for them."…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"… stone was drilled, blasted, and lifted out of the pit. One man “motions” sprang up wherever there was a small field of stone to be carved by an…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"It also filled the orchestra pit and covered the piano. The manager of the time at one point put a sign on the door giving the message that the…"

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… Youth for Christ International, and a Yule Log pit. It is estimated that 500,000 people saw the Pageant in person with many millions watching the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… went right to work felling trees and making rifle pits to guard against such a surprise as befell General Grant at Pittsburg last night, and this…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… rushed around the side through the coal pits and burst through the windows, carrying tons of coal and gravel, packing the boiler room and dye house…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… High was the site of many legendary games pitting the up-and-coming youngsters of the 70’s playing with and against many of the basketball greats…"