Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… lumber and produced cut lumber and moldings for carpenters and cabinetmakers, and also produced wood-block patterns for the oil-cloth factories."

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"… sheds, a modeling and sculpture studio, carpenter's shop, blacksmith's shop, stable, wagon house, storehouse, boiler-house with stack and a rail…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"… Waldoboro in 1836, and apprenticed as a ship’s carpenter and house joiner with Robert Cushing. When Cushing died in 1840, Overlock, after building…"

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

"… with the native populations, and there was a carpenter and a few mechanics among the group also."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"Ship’s joiners and carpenters had their choice of jobs, and more accomplished finish carpenters were in high demand."

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

"… A Fugitive Slave In the spring of 1837, a carpenter named James Sagurs was hired by Captain Daniel Philbrook of Camden and Edward Kelleran of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"… Mott did the masonry work and Cal Staples was the carpenter. The roof was flat and in 1988, seventy years after it was built, it had never leaked…"

Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Painters, carpenters, smiths, and masons all were busy here between 1800 and 1920, building new residences and adding on to the old ones."

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Pomeroy, finish carpenter William H. Weeks, and an elderly lady from the Deering family. Thomas R. Burnham arrived in Portland from Bangor in 1858…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"Her father William Roberts, a carpenter, settled first in Seal Harbor, and later along the eastern shore of Northeast Harbor."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"… was dedicated on April 3, 1996, in memory of Jane Carpenter Poliquin. All funds remaining from the Young Adult Challenge were used to purchase…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Walter P. Carpenter was the chosen delegate to represent the town at the Constitutional Convention held in Portland to form the Constitution for the…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"… building trades are illustrated in pictures of carpenters with planes and saws, masons with bricks in hand, and a glazier holding a window…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Local carpenters and shipbuilders and local families built and owned the new hotels and the supporting businesses."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… her grandfather, Asa Clough, Jr., was ship’s carpenter and master builder. Some of the vessels built in Blue Hill during the first half of the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… Seal Harbor was settled six years later, when carpenter William Roberts built a log cabin close to the beach."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… serving as their own doctors, grocers, tailors, carpenters, fishermen, entertainment, and clergy. People spent their days toiling long hours to…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"… steel and iron-worker, boot and shoe maker(2),carpenter, physician and surgeon, fruit grower, dealers in livestock, and a few years later a used…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"Frederick's father, Leonard W. Rogers, a carpenter, had died the previous August and his widowed mother, Hannah, certified that Frederick was 18…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"At this time he could be hired as a carpenter that remodeled houses or buildings. Andrew Johnson "Create a statement and prove or disprove it with…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… DHS Coll.#122, 1874-1946 The Early History of Dixfield Maine, DHS and Dixfield Bicentennial Committee, 1976 Nancy Carpenter http://www.ioof.org/"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… August 2, 1923, by the Majestic theater’s stage carpenter, Eli Roy. The fire seemed to come from the stage area."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"The early band stand was built in 1874 by a fine carpenter, Henry Sprague, to be used by local musicians, such as Charles Wheeler’s earlier band."