Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"The Cotton Mill closed and had to sell all of its machinery in 1890 and was replaced by the shoe industry."

Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"… worst umbrellas fall Fixing the city Bring in a supply everyone helps clean up rebuild repair soon Cyclones, Storms, and Fixing the City by Gabby…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Iron Foundry

"… Free Library The Hallowell Iron Foundry supplied the Hallowell Cotton Mill with parts for the machines when they were broken."

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"We were under staffed, we needed even more supplies, and we had to be at five different places at once. There were more and more power failures."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"JHallowell residents, Jude Rice and Dr. Hill, supplied the money to build the automobile. George McClench, Frank McClench, and Charles L."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… covered by tree branches, which ripped up their shoes and their feet. The men were catching various diseases, like rheumatism, poisoning from the…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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

"… door, the baker with fresh bread and pastry, the shoe salesman with the latest footwear, the vegetable truck, the dairy wagon and even the local…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… stores, a movie theater, bowling alley, shoe stores and other retailers providing goods and services to those earning incomes from the factories…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… by-laws and minutes, outline contributions of shoes or household items to less fortunate families."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… by 1810, and there was a wheelwright shop, a shoe shop, a blacksmith shop, a schoolhouse, and eleven homes. West vs."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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