Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Indeed, the building of schooners carried Bath through the nationwide depression and into relative prosperity in the 1880s and 1890s."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"The fire, leaping the street, caught on the wooden building across Front Street. Gas tanks exploded and walls fell every couple of minutes, causing…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"The original building was built in 1863. It has a wooden bay window that was added in 1909, and the bricks that make up the outer facade are painted…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… arch bridge was completed in 1930, replacing the wooden bridge that was mounted on the wire mill dam."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… to the building so that it could also manufacture wooden spools for winding thread and wire. The business really started on February 28, 1876, when…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"A wheelwright is a person that repairs broken wooden wheels. The wooden wheels were primarily for carriages or wagons."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"At one time he owned more wooden sailing vessels than anyone in the United States. There are several stories about how the settlement of Guinea…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Train Station, Presque Isle, ca. 1908

"Walls floors and ceiling of office are wooden. Stove in middle of room has coal scuttle next to it. Large desk on right is high, requiring clerk to…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"… home, thus ending the saga of Thomaston’s famed wooden ships. <-Prev. Page…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"… whose job was to fill the seams between the wooden planking. Painters were needed to varnish and paint the ship’s topsides and hulls."

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"It had two-foot high wooden wheels with a half-inch strip of iron around them and a fifty foot leather hose."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"13. 35,000 wooden utility poles were crushed and crumpled by the weight of the ice. 14. Roughly 700,000 of Maine's 1.2 million residents were without…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"The process had a ramp, and they would use wooden boards to give the ice blocks a direction into the stacks."

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… used was using a tool called a drogue, which is a wooden drum or inflated sealskin, that they tied to an arrow or harpoon so the whale would be…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gate no 7 design, Bangor, 1867

"… to build one again and should be compelled to use wooden posts." He noted that he preferred granite and his design no 8 is a similar gate with…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"… style house by adding a fanciful overlay of wooden Gothic Revival carving inspired by the Cathedral of Milan."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… by the Fox family in the 1790s, the two story wooden hip-roofed building housed the grocery business of Daniel Fox and his son Daniel Fox, Jr."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington Public Library, 1916

"Notice the unpaved street, the wooden fences, and the elm trees, which have long since been removed, due to the Dutch elm disease, which was…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince's factory and store, Bangor, 1864

"… 1864 and wrote that the illustration shows the wooden store as it was in 1850 and the old factory before it was rebuilt and the brick store as it…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"It spread among the wooden warehouses along Bangor’s working waterfront. Strong winds quickly spread the fire across the Kenduskeag Stream and burned…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"It was a huge wooden structure that could hold up to 5,000 people. This first auditorium in Bangor came about because of a conversation that William…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"The dory in the foreground has wooden lobster traps on it, while the dory in the background has a trawling tub on it."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory

"Large round blocks of cheese were stored in round wooden boxes. These boxes were often used as pantry storage boxes. Return to Student Research"

Maine Maritime Museum

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