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Historic Hallowell - Row House

"Here lived some of Hallowell's early textile workers. Built by Isaac Gage of Augusta, this Federal-style worker's residence on Second Street was…"

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"Workers produced building stones, paving stones and statuary and monuments. The paving stones, 6x8 inches, sold for 20 cents apiece and were shipped…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"If the workers had to use the bathroom, they would put barrels around themselves. They would have to go quickly because the digger man would start…"

Historic Hallowell - The Johnson Shoe Bros.

"Then the workers were forced to leave immediately, Their work was proclaimed, "not good quality." In 1927, a skating rink took its place, This, the…"

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

"… Description Photograph shows railroad workers and clerks in a Bangor and Aroostook Railroad station."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - About Us

"… work, please visit: http://www.swansislandhistory.org Click the links below to read about our busy workers! History Detectives The Crew"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"Granite Workers, Hallowell Granite Works, Hallowell, ca. 1920Hubbard Free Library In 1901 the average Maine granite cutter received between $2.80…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"1900 Swan's Island Historical Society Many workers came from European countries, and to meet the needs of a rising population, boarding houses and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"Manufacturing in Biddeford and other cities which had access to raw materials advertised in the local newspapers for workers."

Historic Hallowell - The City of Hallowell

"City Office workers were communicating with Central Maine Power and the food bank to get power to the area and get food to the elderly and needy."

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"In spring, workers from out of state came to drive the logs. The whole thing was a year-round process."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today

"… Historical Society Of the over 100 workers at the yard, most have made a lifetime career of fine boat building, some of whom are third, fourth and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry

"… about their own family connections to quarry workers. Please join us in our exploration of Baird's quarry, from its working days to its present…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Draining the quarry

"… operation, the pond was kept drained so that the workers could access the granite. When the quarrying season was over each year, the rain filled up…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"… Stockholm Lumber Company around 1900 where mill workers lived. Also by the railroad there were six more homes."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"1900Hubbard Free Library Young factory workers (like people who worked at the local Hallowell cotton mills and shoe factories) had to attend school…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"Ad by Pepperell Mills to recruit women workers, Biddeford, 1943McArthur Public Library In Biddeford, like the rest of urban Maine, the relief of…"

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"Row House, Hallowell, ca. 1935 Hallowell mill workers lived in The Row House on Second Street. Hubbard Free Library The Cotton Mill's main textile…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"Tremendous numbers of workers were needed for the textile mills, and Biddeford began to experience an intense level of immigration, first of Irish…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"… Strathglass Park, a group of brick homes for the workers of the area. The Rumford Falls Realty (an outgrowth of the Rumford Falls Power Company)…"

Historic Hallowell - One of Many Monuments

"… One well known example of Hallowell Granite workers’ skill is the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… and Immigrants-A Changing Community Workers in Wiler's Oil Cloth Factory.Hubbard Free Library When the railroad came to Hallowell in 1851 it…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"Workers make sure the potatoes and rocks are separated. A conveyors dumps the potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more…"