Keywords: work barge
Item 27190
Georges River from Prison Site, Thomaston, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 31752
Ship "Tremblay" on the Saco River, ca. 1917
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1917 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history
"Finally, the granite was loaded onto barges to be shipped to New York and Boston. Sometimes the barges were towed away from the wharf by a pulley and…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824
"Fifty builders and two lighters (unpowered barges used to transfer cargo under tow) for the transport of granite from St."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
