Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"… Lincoln, prior to paved roads; however, utility poles are present. The Civil War monument and Methodist Church are visible in the background, as…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gate no 2 design, Bangor, 1867

"… with small round cedar crooks and straight poles as convenience may occur and hung on iron grudgeons set in the centre of the posts so as to swing…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Works Cited Page

"12 Feb. 2010. Remal, Gary J. “Pole by pole, power comes back.” 13 Jan. 1998, Remal, Gary J. “Storm Edition: Day 5.” Kennebec Journal 13 Jan."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… through with this matter I could count about 70 poles which were taken away. Even if the general public may no longer recall that these disfiguring…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 3 - Page 1 of 2

"Repairing power lines, fixing the poles, and toughing out the cold. They worked their hardest without a break."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John and Clara Martin wedding hack, Bangor, 1850

"… every particular even the hook on the end of the pole and all the window trimmings the glass lamps on the side of the drivers seat were cut the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… before the American flag was common, a Liberty Pole was the emblem of patriotism, so it was befitting that a Liberty Pole should be erected on the…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"Those were made by people in town. The poles were made of mop and or broom handles. The skis were used for playing, running errands, skiing to school…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"Handtubs operated by making a long pole with a piston on each end go up on one side and down on the other."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gravenstein apple, Bangor, 1866

"… would have bent to the ground but I took a brush pole I had shoved & tied it up as drawn." Martin wrote "this tree Duchese Anjeolene" and then he…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"Some people made their own simple poles out of an alder branch. They would notch the branch, and add a string with a hook."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"13. 35,000 wooden utility poles were crushed and crumpled by the weight of the ice. 14. Roughly 700,000 of Maine's 1.2 million residents were without…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"There were telephone poles down and electric wires protruding sparks from the ripped off ends. The roof of Grover's grocery store was demolished and…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… or long, thin boats that you move by pushing long poles against the bottom of the river. So many boats had to be built quickly, that the boat…"

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

"… early 1920s to make clothespins, peavey and pick-pole handles, whiffle-trees, snowshoes and perforated chair seats."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… was built to make clothes pins, peavey and pick–pole handles, whiffle–trees, snowshoes and perforated chair seats. Then it was a lumber mill."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"… wires and they were putting up telephone poles that fell down. Obviously most of the schools in New England were closed."

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"The loggers used poles, booms and even dynamite to break up the log jam. One of the biggest jams in history was on the Kennebec in early March, 1896…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… was pressed in hand screens and stretched on poles to dry. Many Hampden women worked in the mill’s rag room."

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"… products such as little beaded crafts and poles. The vice president and manager of Drapers Mill was Samuel Bordman."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… starting in 1740s and 1750s) possible; Pere Pole, a Revolutionary War veteran, and his attempts at protecting the Sandy River; and Polin, in his…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."