Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!

"From Native American shell middens to the rusted remains of quarrying equipment, Swan's Island holds a living history of the industries that have…"

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

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

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"Shell heaps found on the island tell of encampments by Native Americans – the Abnaki. There is no written information from this time period but…"

Nylander Museum

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"… ivory, bakelite, wood, metal, hard rubber, horn, shells, and glass. Carved and painted into the buttons are various designs: lines and dots…"

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… it was said that a pound of fat could make two AA shells. Sugar was also important to making war weapons."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"Clams were shucked (meat cut from the shell), salted, and barreled in fish houses on the flats of Blue Point."

Wilson Museum

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… made this stark record of its gutted stone shell so damaged by the heat of the fire that demolition was the only alternative."

Music in Maine - Music Education

"… Eastern Music Camp is the second largest outdoor shell stage in the United States. The original stage, benches, and chairs are in use by the New…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… they peppered away at us all day with shot and shell, some of which struck and burst within a few feet of us."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… the sea made our little canoe dance like a cockle-shell. Great swells carried us grandly on their backs; the birds swooped and gave strange cries…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… make jewelry and play music, as evidenced by the shell beads and bone flutes found by archaeologists on Frenchman Bay."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"Because of the limited availability of soft shell clams, another source of clams was needed for clam chowder."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… sale or a newly molted lobster time to harden its shell. Miss Pine Point, Scarborough, 1938Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Various…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… a lobster sheds its exoskeleton and grows a new shell. During this period lobsters are very soft, don’t move around much for several days and are…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… of a fish weir used for trapping fish and in the shell heaps of Winnocks Neck. European settlement along the Maine coast was an accidental…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… • Passamaquoddy encampments in North Lubec – shell middens found on South Bay and Mill Creek. Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… traveled into outer space as a component of the shell of a NASA balloon satellite. Construction of a new tissue mill (a mill that creates large…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… the remains of which have been discovered in shell middens along the shores of Mill Creek and South Bay."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… shop located at the site of the current Shell station; a butcher shop stood at the spot that Food Stop now occupies."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Huge shell middens have been found along the shores where natives camped for hundreds of years. After their initial scare by Captain Church's men…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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