Maine Memory Network

Loading limestone at Engine Quarry, Rockland, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph

McClain's Quarry, Blackington's Corner, Rockland, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"It is also my desire that as much limerock should be gotten and hauled, and all the kilns fitted so as to be burned early in March."