Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… tending the animals, preserving the food, spinning and weaving the clothing, cooking and tending the children. The first physician came to Mt."

New Sweden Historical Society

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Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"old shoddy mill X Spinning Mill X Before bridges on the island, transportation was provided onto the island by a ferry."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"A metal pick would be used to help spin the ice down into the collection. Once they got to the ice house they would be stored in sawdust to keep cool…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"… just put the boards into the drum, which would spin for 5-6 hours. It would go counter clockwise then they would reverse it."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… included gardening, dairying, food preparation, spinning, weaving, clothes-making, laundry, and childcare."

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"… community by providing a easy way for people to spin their wool. Nathaniel Bodwell died in 1874. Emily Gray "Describe your feelings, or the…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… bobbins for use in the textile industry on the spinning frames. This was the second textile mill in town."