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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 - Shipbuilding

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

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…"

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 - 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."

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…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

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

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Davis Hatch had a business selling boots and shoes at 116 Front Street. When Hatch died, his son took over the business. Lewis E."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… sales of groceries, sporting goods, boots and shoes. Leslie Adkins wagon shop was built to paint and repair wagons."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… dogs, aerialists, wizards of the tight wire, soft shoe dancers, burlesque magicians and illusionists, jugglers, gymnasts, cyclists, and…"

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

"… the first built in 1803, salt factories, shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… stores, a movie theater, bowling alley, shoe stores and other retailers providing goods and services to those earning incomes from the factories…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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