Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… men who financed: the Bank Block, The Lincoln Block, and the Columbian Block, in addition to the Church Block."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"The Ledyard Block has had many people living and working there. As a result of these things, the Ledyard Block is important to Bath History."

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

"He designed Hyde Block. Francis Fassett also built the Sagadohoc County Courthouse. Henry Swanton was the president of Bath Savings for many years."

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

"When the businesses were brought into the new block, most of the old businesses were brought back to start where they had left off."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… period, including the Granite Block, the Union Block, the Bank Block and the Church Block, the latter having replaced the Universalist Church razed…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"The fire not only affected many businesses, but also severely affected many people's lives. Eyeglasses and case from C. W. Clifford, Bath, ca."

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 - The Customs House

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

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

"Both the Watts Block and Knox Hotel were immediately rebuilt, the former being enlarged and today housing the Town Offices, the Town Police…"

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

"With increased shipbuilding along Water Street, this location was found to be more convenient for trading, and new business blocks were built to…"

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 - 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 - 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."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… building shown to the left, in 1916, replaced the wooden structure, and was the location of the French & Elliott Company, the Masonic Hall and the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Ice was either a ten cents block or a twenty cents block. You would have to cut it to fit the ice box and then carry it up to the house."

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…"

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."

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

"In 1904, wooden sidewalks were constructed on Main Street. They were designed to allow shop owners to add hitching rails for their patrons’ horses if…"

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

"… framing consisted of hand-hewn 6"x6" timbers with wooden pegs. One can imagine A.C. Savage and/or his neighbors fashioning those logs sometime in…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"He invented a wooden coat hanger that was very different than other hangers at the time. He also was very involved in the town’s music activities…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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