Keywords: Boilers
Item 12278
Moving a Boiler, Caribou, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print
Item 12074
Portland Company boilers, 1906
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906 Location: Hebron Media: Photographic print
Item 86279
Boiler House, Central Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Central Wharf Proprietors Use: Boiler House
Item 86695
Boiler House, Holyoke Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Portland Pier Use: Boiler House
Item 110207
Walsh Holyoke Boiler Works Inc., Portland, 1953
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1953 Location: Portland Client: Walsh Holyoke Boiler Works Inc. Architect: Stevens and Saunders
Item 109530
Boiler House for College Block, Lewiston, 1896
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Lewiston Client: unknown Architect: Coombs, Gibbs and Wilkinson Architects
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
Exhibit
George Henry Preble of Portland, nephew of Edward Preble who was known as the father of the U.S. Navy, temporarily lost his command during the Civil War when he was charged with failing to stop a Confederate ship from getting through the Union blockade at Mobile.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Pulp & Paper Mill, Lincoln, 1957 - Page 1 of 2
"… Historical Society Description Recovery Boiler and pulp room under construction in Lincoln on November 25, 1957."
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Kids at the quarry
"… industry, from iron spikes left in the granite to boilers that generated the steam power for the quarry tools."
Story
The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea
This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily
Story
Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
