Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Ayers stopped and helped me unload. Set up stove etc. I built a fire and then with Ayers went down to his house where with my wife and child and I…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… of unsupervised candles, lanterns, wood or oil stoves, or cigarettes from human hands. Rumford experienced numerous expensive fires."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… and blocks had no central heat, just a large cook stove with copper hot water tank in the kitchen. Running water was a seasonal affair through…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… in his rocking chair by the big pot-bellied stove in the middle of the floor and didn’t move around very fast.” Reynolds also describes Elisha…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… Heating in schools was provided by a potbelly stove in the back of the classroom. The children closest to the heater were uncomfortably warm and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"The first kids to arrive at school would load the stove with firewood gathered by the boys. Some of the schools were even labeled as unfit for…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… of salt fish, molasses barrels and the pot belly stove. The store became a “nucleus for wholesale trade in grain, wool, apples, eggs and maple…"

Acadian Archives

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… up on each side of the bench with individual stoves for heating their soldering iron. The report said “they are ‘the can makers,’ so called, who…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… but also made commercial products such as stoves. The boot industry was also well established at this time."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… a big black kettle and boiled on their Franklin stove. After cooking to the consistency of molasses, it was strained to skim off all remaining bark…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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