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Historic Hallowell - Captains and Their Ships

"… on Schooners and Steamers, including Tankers within this paragraph. Socony Tanker, Kennebec River, Hallowell, 1957Hubbard Free Library"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"1900 A similar view to the procedure used on the Kennebec when gathering ice. Click on the link to learn more about cutting ice on Cascade Pond in…"

Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus

"… a boat could get a man from Massachusetts to the Kennebec valley. Each decade after the Revolution saw the population of the area increase by…"

Historic Hallowell - Our Journey Home

"… of places -- a wilderness area well inland on the Kennebec River. The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make it more than a…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"… the city of Bombay India, and the hook in the Kennebec River just below the point. There is no documentation for either theory."

Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations

"Old Hallowell on the Kennebec. Augusta, Maine: Sam Teddy Publishers, 2009 N.p.: n.p., n.d. www.google.com. 23 Apr."

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… highway, by razing all the buildings between the Kennebec River and Water Street, including the commercial areas known as Merchant’s Row and…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men

"… that all you needed to build ships on the Kennebec was a stand of timber, a sloping bank and a little good water."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"… one little child, landed upon the shore of the Kennebec and made a path for themselves to the spot where the old cotton factory now stands in…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"Kennebec River Flood, North end of Joppa, Hallowell, 1896Hubbard Free Library On March 2nd, 1896, Hallowell had its 3rd largest flood in the history…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"When they got shipped down the Kennebec, they went to the Steam and Boom Company in Hallowell. The Steam and Boom Company collected all the logs and…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… Library As reported in the September 24, 2001, Kennebec Journal, Kevin Pomerleau and four other divers recovered wooden artifacts from the bottom…"

Historic Hallowell - Joppa

"… article titled "Story Linked to Naming of Joppa", Kennebec Journal July 27, 1962. Joppa Looking North, Hallowell, 1870Courtesy of Sumner A."

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"… author and composer wrote in Old Hallowell on the Kennebec: A stranger visiting Hallowell, to-day, cannot fail to be impressed by the picturesque…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"… were many shipbuilding spots on the shore of Kennebec River in Hallowell. Then in the 1900s, oil was brought to the waterfront in tanks."

Historic Hallowell - Thomas Bond House

"Hallowell House". An 1879 Kennebec County map shows the occupant of the Thomas Bond House as H.Q. Blake. H.Q."

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place

"… another man stood on the hillside overlooking the Kennebec and reflected on what had attracted him to Hallowell, a place he now called home."

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"Everybody would carry the leather buckets to the Kennebec River, fill them with water, and lug them back up to the burning house to douse the fire."

Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"… Revolution many trained physicians came to the Kennebec Valley to establish medical practices. They included Daniel Cony, Samuel Colman, Benjamin…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… Emma Huntington Nason in Old Hallowell on the Kennebec, as one of the town’s “interesting characters.” Who does not remember Johnny Stringer--the…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"… to port during a severe storm at the mouth of the Kennebec River. In 1801, Agry moved with his new wife to Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… Cotton was delivered to the Cotton Mill on the Kennebec river to Hallowell by sailing ship. Once the ship was at the dock, the cotton was brought…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective

"… Industry on the Bombahook and Commerce on the Kennebec describing some of the happenings along the riverfront and related topics."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"The Kennebec Journal had articles of the ships that came in and out of Hallowell because many people owned a part of the profit."