Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"Every time they got a new shipping material(another item) the captain would write it all down in his captains log which contains the item, how much…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"In 1792, Gould built the lovely federal home on the corner of Winthrop and Middle Streets. Gould only enjoyed his home for a short while, for he was…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping

"Henry Knox: Shipping Shipping the goods that he was producing was an important part of Knox’s business dealings."

Historic Hallowell - Captains and Their Ships

"The other piece being on Schooners and Steamers, including Tankers within this paragraph. Socony Tanker, Kennebec River, Hallowell, 1957Hubbard…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"The sea has always played an important part of the survival of MDI. Generations of men and women have worked the sea to support their families."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"However poorly Maine's native peoples faired after contact with Europeans, only the southwestern tribes would disappear altogether--driven from their…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - -Across the Sea- a history through transportation

"Much has changed since people first set foot on the shores of Swan's Island, but there is a community spirit that survives, as constant as the tides."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec

"… shipbuilding in Hallowell, very famous Hallowell sea captains, the history of schooners and steamboats, hazardous ice cutting, shipping, whaling…"

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"Good navigators produced good profits. Edward Preble Norton observed that in Hallowell at the time "Every boy who had arrived at the age of eighteen…"

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

"Clams were shipped to the factory from all over the east coast. In 1883 Burnham & Morrill and other companies canned and shipped 3,000 to 8,000…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"After joining the US Navy as a Sea Bee during World War II, Donald met and married Marguerite Hodgkins in 1946."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"The nation turned to coal, iron, and oil. Maine’s decreased role in the national trend toward industrial growth would later become an attraction when…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"The vessel headed to the river prematurely and, dragging a 4200-pound anchor through the hillside above her, cut a furrow five feet deep, tearing…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861

"Yankee ships were in constant danger of being detained in southern ports or running blockades to be destroyed at sea by Confederate gunboats."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Most of the pines measured about a yard across and one hundred feet high and grew so close to each other there was no room for limbs to sprout for…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The heyday of American shipping was from 1815 to 1859, and shipyards were a significant employer of Surry workmen in Surry village, East Surry and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford

"We also learned about artillery onboard the ship. We also learned more about the captain of this ship. This is a secondary resource."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 1 of 17

"Due to these financially advantageous factors, heavy Irish and Canadian immigration occurred. The 1830 and 1860 Biddeford census show a rise from…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"Wreck of the "Washington B. Thomas," Scarborough, ca. 1903Scarborough Historical Society & Museum The Thomas was en route from Norfolk to Portland…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"Once the ship pulled into port in East Thomaston, Maine, Kelleran took Atticus to his farm on Brooklyn Heights, where the fugitive reportedly worked…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… spirit that infused the passengers on the first ships from England 140 years before them. There were few necessities at hand beyond their own hard…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Champlain voyaged along this coast in 1604, naming islands as he traveled. Champlain’s early map gives this island the name “Brule-Cote,” meaning…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 7 of 17

"The Laconia Mills were one of the earliest established textile mills on the Biddeford side of the Saco River."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"Ice harvesting was not only a local, state or national trade, ice was shipped all over the world as far as South America, India and China."