Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… a big part of the school day and are an important tool in learning. Some classrooms even have SMART boards, interactive whiteboards that combine a…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maine Community Heritage Project

"… a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… Society & Museum Clam Harvesting Although the tools are simple (a metal rake, metal bucket and onion bags), clam digging is hard, backbreaking…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Click to view Salt Marsh Tools Salt hay continued to be important to the people of Scarborough well into the 1800s, as it became a source of income…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"Using a broad axe and crude tools, Wheeler soon built a cabin for his family on a knoll which is now known as Dudley Street."

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

"All of these technological tools are essential for teachers and students on a daily basis. Discipline Olivia, grade 6 Scottow's Hill Rural…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… formal training and using regular carpenter’s tools is astonishing.” Litchfield retired as a station agent at Candia, New Hampshire in 1941 and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Swan's Island artifact Partially chipped tool found on Swan's Island. X Artifacts such as arrowheads and stone tools have been unearthed over…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… stripped some basswood bark to make a chain (the tool used to measure land) that was one rod in length."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Just behind the Mall along the riverbank stone tools and stone boiling rocks spanning the last 3,500 years are plainly visible."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… mittens on or the frost stuck their hands to the tools. Just a little wheat was raised and a few potatoes."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… bowling pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles. While water provided the power, the forests and fields provided the raw materials…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"As time went on, the machines and tools were upgraded and the company expanded for about 10 years, then it burned down."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… in Topsham to get supplies, axes, saws and other tools to begin the hard job of clearing the land. They came back to The Sandy River area two weeks…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"These tools were very critical for lumberjacks. Lumber Capital There were many key factors that led Bangor to become the lumber capital of the…"

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

"These photographs were taken with an early black-and-white instant Polaroid camera. Piers under construction for bridge, Lubec, 1961 Lubec…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… including cider mills, axes, scythes, and other tools. Wood products including window sashes, caskets, shovel handles continued to be manufactured…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… founders in 1776, lacking a “chain”, the tool used to measure land, staked out property lines using basswood bark, The “men measured off six…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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