Maine Memory Network

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of North New Portland

"… Society Cement Bridge: The Cement Bridge is scheduled to be replaced with a new single span steel girder bridge to be completed in 2010."

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"In 1973, Carl Chase heard a steel band play while he was visiting the Caribbean. He loved the sound and brought steel drums (also known as pans) up…"

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… as the granite industry gave way to concrete and steel. Last Coal Barge, Hallowell, ca. 1939Hubbard Free Library In 1939, the last coal…"

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

"… industry A shift in shipbuilding from wood to steel put Maine at a major disadvantage in an industry where the state previously had considerable…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… bed of each digger consisted of lags which were steel rods 7/16 inches in diameter. They had a hook on each end so that they could be tied together…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2

"The address is 9 Oak Street. Flood and Steel Bridge, Guilford, 1936Guilford Historical Society In 1979, Saulter joined the company as president."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4

"The cage crinoline made of flexible steel appeared about 1856. As a result, women could walk unencumbered by the layers of heavy petticoats, with…"

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 - Industrial Recources

"… typically used for chopping wood with usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"Flood and Steel Bridge, Guilford, 1936Guilford Historical Society The biggest flood recorded in Guilford since 1936 was the 1987 flood."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"… wire to make sewing machine needles, and spring steel wire for hoop skirts and bustle supports. Improved water and rail transport speeded and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… by single stories, flat roofs, and glass and steel construction. Tarbell was an outspoken critic of the traditional brick Georgian Revival style…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"Although the steel has been removed, the concrete piers are still visible today from Riverside Drive between State and Main Streets."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"… the late 1800s, those bridges were replaced with steel bridges for a stronger reinforcement. In 1970, the Margaret Chase Smith bridges were erected…"

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

"… blacksmiths, insurance, a canning factory, tin, steel and iron-worker, boot and shoe maker(2),carpenter, physician and surgeon, fruit grower…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… Or the least expensive, this stamped lithographed steel button with the safety pin on the rear, like those still manufactured a century later."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… In the early 1950’s the construction for a new steel and concrete bridge was underway after being interrupted once again by another flood."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"Train tracks are now made of steel or other metals. Presently, automobiles have replaced trains for most transportation purposes."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Island was flooded; the Morse bridge, the steel Rumford Falls Bridge, the Rangeley Lakes Railroad bridge, and the Ridlonville bridge were washed…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"… major supply lines and many miles of stainless steel pipe, was installed to deliver the purest of waters to all departments."

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

"The bridge remains, a working ribbon of steel and concrete intimately tying two communities in two nations into a single working relationship."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"It was a steel stringer bridge. It replaced a boxed timber pony truss. Photo records indicate that this old bridge was damaged in 1926, when the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"A steel ceiling was also installed in the main room on May 24, 1920. From June 4 to November 9, 1921, a well was drilled and a water system installed…"