Maine Memory Network

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

"… representatives, laundries, express service, boat yards, livery stables and blacksmith shops were all present and island-based."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"Water was in the streets, yards, and even in home’s. It happened because the ice was backed up under a bridge and the water overflowed."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"When it was time for kids to come in a teacher would stand in the doorway and ring a bell unless the school had a bell tower."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lunt House, Cumberland at Center streets, Bangor, ca. 1852

"… Robinson to an Irishman and moved to McGaws Brick yard April 6th 1871." The Mrs. Cary to whom he referred was his mother-in-law."

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"I saved up $5 from babysitting and raking the yard to afford new school clothes this year. I didn’t have a job last summer, so I didn’t get any new…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 4 of 17

"… a contract for the New York Harlem Bridge and a bridge in Philadelphia to provide 25,000 yards of stone to New York and 600 for Philadelphia."

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

"… her father, as a boy, served up the grog at the yard where her grandfather, Asa Clough, Jr., was ship’s carpenter and master builder."

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

"… Public crew on hand works to secure hundred of yards of rope to the tree. Presque Isle Historical Society Cutting down the National…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery

"March 5, 1770 VOTED to work on the Burying Yard the 25th of April. There is a Jonah Dodge mentioned in the same early records who was buried "near…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"The Tradition Continues...... Webber's Cove Boat Yard in East Blue Hill, owned and operated by Matt Cousins, 2010."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"(A) Rumery's Boat Yard: on the Saco River, Biddeford, Maine. Rumery's Boat Yard. Web. 1 Feb. 2010. (S) Salvas-Coulombe Theatre Collection (1885-1991)."

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"… figure in the foreground drives a snake from the yard. Historically – in its dynamic view of a coastal market town emerging from the frontier."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Most of the pines measured about a yard across and one hundred feet high and grew so close to each other there was no room for limbs to sprout for…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"The train fell off the tracks in my yard once when I was little, and it rolled over. My grandfather told me about it."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Flake Yard, Portland, 1854Maine Historical Society The fishing industry Before the advent of refrigeration on vessels, Maine's fishing villages…"

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

"… who married Dorcas Pratt, established his yard on the northeast side of the Royal River in 1826."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… he ran down the stairs and out the door into the yard. The leaves on the trees and ground were orange, yellow and brown."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… burst through the road surface, leaving a hole a yard in diameter. Despite “numerous and extensive” washouts, Lincoln town crews refused to quit…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"The lime yard had just closed down so there wasn’t a lot of work. What about your siblings? My sister got married right out of school before I was…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"The flood of workers, as many as 3,000 for the Texas Steamship yard and 1,400 for BIW, brought Bath’s daytime population to an estimated 20,000, a…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"But a mere 300 yards from the U.S. mainland at Lubec, Maine. Ferry steamers navigated this narrow but treacherous arm of the sea beginning in 1882…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… suppliers of materials needed to construct the yards and vessels. Prosperity Eastport was captured and occupied by the British from 1814 until 1818…"