Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"… This process was done during the spring because glue could not be made in hot weather, nor a large quantity in the winter on account of it drying."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"That winter, the men cut 5,000,000 board feet of lumber from the land where Mattanawcook Lake would eventually be, enough to run the three saws in…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"… the local people to eat, and many people in the winter come up and end up eating there. So throughout the years Eureka Hall hasn't always been…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"… laying the main 24” pipe, and the onset of the winter of 1913-1914, work was stopped until the spring of 1914."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"Terrible! Cold in the winter and cold and wet in the summer. Horrible. I can remember my father in the winter staring the kitchen window at the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"The piers were built on the river ice during the winter months (January, February, and March) in 1893."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"The Central Congregational Church merged with the Winter Street Church in 1965 to consolidate the expenses of maintaining two large facilities…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"When it was winter, the year round loggers chopped down trees. They worked in crews with four or five men."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Ski Club, founded in the early 1920s, offered winter Nordic and Cross Country skiing, and hosted an annual winter carnival, first at its ski jump…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"Levy and Abbie Murphy Winter, in Lynn, Massachusetts, where the Winters resided. Throughout their marriage, Richardson and Carrie Johnson raised four…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… the following year, the boys having survived the winter on cow’s milk, hulled corn, boiled wheat, and roasted potatoes. In September of 1806 Mrs."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"Winter Carnival arrivals, New Sweden, 1936New Sweden Historical Society Railroad Station, Stockholm, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… to play anywhere, sliding down the streets in winter, exploring the surrounding woods, and playing in the brook in summer."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"The next winter he went with a crew of men to work at a location twelve miles into the woods from the nearest dwelling."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"In winter, they might go north to cut wood. Early settlers of Blue Hill were forced to be resourceful in order to survive."

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"He taught at the high school in the winters of 1824-1826. He probably had to work hard at teaching the teenagers that attended the school."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"There were many crews working in the woods in the winter. In 1902, the Standard Veneer Company (owned by Warren Trafton and Allen Quimby) purchased…"

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 1 of 3

"… a two-wheeled hose reel, and a sled for in the winter. They were paid around three dollars a year."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"During the winter months when there was snow, sleigh cars replaced the horse cars. Some time after Portland became electrified in the 1880s, the…"

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

"… affair through above-ground pipes; in the winter one needed to fetch fresh water by taking buckets down to the brook next to the house and there…"

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

"… area and in 1781 eight families spent their first winter in the new settlement. Out of the six original explorers who marked out their lots in 1776…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… but with the warming temperatures in the late winter, early spring, the winter ice on the river melted at a fast rate."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Around 1869 and 1870, the winter weather in Massachusetts and New York was warm, so they bought their ice from Maine."