Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"Each wing consisted of two rows of cells, each cubicle about 4.5’ x almost 9’ and about 10’ deep, exposed to the elements below ground level."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Rowe created the Roland and Rowe ponds by building successive dams across the valley of Millbrook Stream on his farm."

Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"The jacket had one or two rows of hard, steel buttons often having decorations imprinted or engraved on to them."

Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"Organizations like the Row House, that works to preserve Hallowell’s architectural and culture resources, the Hallowell Area Board of Trade striving…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… men using a hand digger to dig potatoes from the rows. Others picked the potatoes from the ground and put them in barrels."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… twenty-nine club members seated or standing in rows. The other image is a whole plate daguerreotype by George M. Howe taken in February, 1853."

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

"From the Cranberry Isles, that was seven miles. Baptists added an overland trek to their rowing. This time also saw new settlements."

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

"… boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns."

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

"… a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row Street for their workers' families, a stable and two barns."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"1911 A North Lubec class photo, Myron in front row, third from left. Use the zoom tool for a closeup.Lubec Historical Society Attending North Lubec…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"Don't pick any rotten potatoes. 9. Don't throw potatoes. 10, You're setting your barrels in the wrong row, I can't get the truck through."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Portland, Maine: Press of Southworth Bros., 1893. Rowe, William Hutchinson. Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine, 1636-1936."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"… Edwin Starbird, pictured in center of the back row, took many of the pictures that made Fly Rod Crosby famous.Strong Historical Society Ms."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"Three men rowed out to the Thomas and were able to get a line onto the ship and safely rescue the crew."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… Society They spent their days sailing and rowing across Somes Sound and around the islands, swimming in Lower Hadlock Pond, climbing and tramping…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… man sitting on the grass at the left in the front row. His wife, Mabelle Strout Savage, is the left-most woman standing on the porch with her right…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a row of sharp teeth which cut a narrow furrow six or seven inches deep."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a row of sharp teeth which cut a narrow furrow six or seven inches deep."

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

"… fall of 1783, brothers David and Samuel Hutchins rowed up Seven Mile Brook (Carrabassett River) searching for land suitable to build homes for…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… photograph shows the South Smokehouse with the row of “windows” painted the bright red that John McCurdy favored."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"(Rowe) Ruins of the Universalist Church, Bangor, 1911Bangor Public Library A firewall at the foot of Hammond Street Hill saved City Hall with…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… piece just 6 feet square on each edge there is A row of holes and another of Buttons. We button the edges of 2 togather and throw them over A pole…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Rowe, W.H. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding and Seafaring, 1948. Shain, C., Shain, S."