Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"The first building was the large wooden structure and two smaller buildings closer to the Piscataquis River were later replaced."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950 The large ships had short life expectancies, being driven hard and fast by their masters."

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

"… cranes moved in place to fabricate the temporary wooden trestles in the water as working platforms for construction of pier foundations, piers, and…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"Drapers Mill & Edes Building, Guilford, ca. 1940Guilford Historical Society Drapers Mill, Guilford, late 1940sGuilford Historical Society He…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"… was a technique of cutting and beveling wooden siding boards at intervals to simulate stone blocks."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"… Watts Block, along with the Telegraph Block - a wooden commercial block next to it, a stable and the Knox Hotel to its west."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… in which prisoners were taught how to build wooden wagons, buckboards, buggies and sleighs. This led to the production of harnesses and tack for…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"A wooden roof with sliding doors was erected above the top of the cells, creating an open room about 10-12’ high."

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

"In the early 1920’s the Odd Fellows built a large Hall and operated it for ten years. The building then turned over to a string of owners, starting…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… Company, makers of box shooks (the sides of wooden boxes, popular in the days before corrugated boxes), doors, and dimension lumber."

Lincoln, Maine - High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903

"Note the stone piers. This was built after the wooden bridge washed out by a Spring flood in 1902. The large white building on the right is the…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"The Minto Toothpick Company purchased a local wooden box mill and converted it to a toothpick mill. A grist mill and feed store changed hands from M."

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"They sold beaded crafts, wooden checkers, and many more craft supplies. Drapers Mill was a supplier of box boards to other mills."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"In the late 19th century, pre-existing wooden stores were gradually replaced with brick construction, creating the historic downtown streets one sees…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"… a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle. The Beetle was a tool with a heavy head and a handle used for tasks such as ramming…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… of the Rappahannock, one of the four largest wooden vessels built by the A. Sewall and Company."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"This old fashioned, wooden shipbuilding hss been mostly left behind by the large, metallic ships they make nowadays with blow torches, drills, and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"Before the Davenport Memorial, there were four wooden buildings with many uses at the site. A barber shop shared one building with the Farr and Frost…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"… and Front Streets was occupied by a 2 ½ story wooden building housing the Zina Hyde Chandlery. The purpose of the chandlery was to sell equipment…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… downtown began to shift from one largely of wooden buildings to one of brick. The fire not only affected many businesses, but also severely…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"That building, which housed the grocery store of William Ledyard on property that may have been sold to William Ledyard and Asa Palmer by William…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"In the spring of 1906, building began on a power plant at Aroostook Falls in New Brunswick to supply much-needed power to northern Maine and New…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Later it produced wooden lasts for the shoe factories. Boston Flint Company sandpaper mill beside Vaughan Brook.Courtesy of Sumner A."

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"The wheels were made of wooden discs which where bound with half inch iron tires. In the center was a pump with one cylinder."