Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864

"Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes diving off wharf, Hampden, ca. 1840

"Raynes (1830-1918) of Brewer often dove off a pile of boards on Covaly's wharf in Hampden in order to retrieve an egg that his friends dropped in the…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 2

"… framing members are circular sawed, as are the piles of boards in the background waiting to sheath the building."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 2 of 3

"The item is of a natural off-white short pile fur fabric, lined with heavy cream polyester satin, and without a label."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"… exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Piles of logs along the Saco River, ca. 1910McArthur Public Library The earliest settlers lived…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"… with horses that would pull big drags with rocks piled on it. The drag would make flat paths. That looked like little roads."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"And still the work goes on. Nearly as fast as the piles are driven, they are capped, and the stringers and track timbers laid, in the direction of…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"… 15, 2008, Maine flood fears rise, as snow piles up, http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2008-02-15-maine-flooding_N.htm USGS, Hallowell-Maine…"

Lubec Landmarks

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"… with the changing pressures, snow, rain, and ice piled over the community. As more and more rain fell, the cold temperatures turned it into ice…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"She piled all her findings in a simple shopping bag. Russell Douglass X Fifty years later, the bag was given to the Hampden Historical Society…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… Society Every street in town was reported piled high with drifts, much pushed onto sidewalks “which are now but a pleasant memory.” Blizzard…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… shell middens: areas where heaps of shells were piled with other refuse over the course of months and years."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"… 15, 2008, Maine flood fears rise, as snow piles up, http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2008-02-15-maine-flooding_N.htm USGS, Hallowell-Maine…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… location, out at the end of the wharf on long pilings, on the right in Van Riper’s photograph. This was so that herring could be unloaded even at…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… 12 yoke of oxen, with all the people they could pile on to it, and drove to Dixfield Village. Jonathan Waite was at the head of it when the cart…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"… the dam sorted and large ones suitable for river piled on the bank ready to use if you decide to use them."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"The huge piles of pulpwood that were stored on the grounds of the International Paper Company and the Oxford Paper Company were constantly sprayed…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… large scale: large farms and mowing fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four vessels…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"Now, only a few rotting pilings remain to mark the site.Photo donated by Edith Comstock.Lubec Memorial Library Alas, late in July of 1898 rumors…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… the vendor frantically searched throughout the pile of dresses before finally locating the missing item)."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… side, the bottom rammed firmly against the wood piling. The Canadians scrambled onto the trestle, never getting their feet wet."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… building." The details also noted that the "huge piles of charred rubble [were] gone and plans to rebuild were underway.” Today a new photography…"