Maine Memory Network

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"… eye view map, Hallowell, 1878 Bombahook is the peninsula on the left side of the image. Click on the picture to zoom in for a closer look.Courtesy…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… and industrial structures on the Portland peninsula and another one hundred in the Deering area."

Blue Hill Public Library

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Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"The peninsula, known later as Sheppard's Point, became the home for sawmills, grist mills and shipyards."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… Jerry Durnbaugh and Bob Bannister founded the Peninsula Ambulance Corps. The organization they started with one Pontiac ambulance and an…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… mix of isolated hinterlands and insulated peninsulas, populated by certain and defined neighborhoods of people whose purpose and visage within…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… to building these new boats at that time, but today the Blue Hill Peninsula still has several boatyards, so in some ways the tradition continues."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"This peninsula of slightly higher land, where much of today’s downtown sits, was approachable from the southwest through a narrow neck in the…"