Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… built in 1793-94 at the former site of Fort Wharf for Major General Henry Knox. Knox, commander of the American artillery in the Revolution…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… two-and-a-half-story federal-styled home and a wharf on the river at a section, referred to the Narrows, to dock his trading vessels."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"Sometimes the barges were towed away from the wharf by a pulley and cable set into a small rocky island, Ringbolt Ledge, till they could safely get…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… Queen Contestants The contestants met at the town wharf before the ball for a photo op. Susie is third from the right."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along the Penobscot from making…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… Pike’s photograph of many of them outdoors on the wharf on a rainy day is helpful to give idea of how many carts were needed."

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

"… lime kilns were operating near the old Fort Wharf, located at the base of Knox Street, near where the Knox mansion had stood."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Spurling’s Wharf on the Atlantic side was a factory that baited trawlers coming into Mackerel Cove. Swan’s Island fishermen worked hard and were…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"A fire burning on the wharf in the afternoon could be aerially photographed and published that evening, an impressive and telling feat for the 1930s."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… store, near the cove at the South of the present wharf, smelling of all tarry seafaring things…” Kimball’s story sold hardware, dry goods, flour…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… built and a share in Wheeler’s mills and the Long Wharf, located at the end of Elm Street East which went out into the mouth of the Souadabscook…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… welcomed visitors who arrived via the ferry wharf at the camera’s rear. Click on the picture then read the text telling of the portion of this…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Dark Harbor Wharf, Islesboro, 1917Islesboro Historical Society By the mid-1800s, steamboats were used to transport passengers and freight to the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"To the south, at Union Wharf, King sold property to William Ledyard and Asa Palmer for $300 in 1806."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"Parker Point had its own wharf where a steamship transported people to and from Rockland. Train travel was somewhat more difficult and required a…"

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

"… Hill Clam Packing Factory and Steamboat Wharf, South Blue Hill, ca. 1900Blue Hill Historical Society A Tight-Knit Community."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"A steamboat even docked at Steamboat Wharf on Contention Cove. Started in 1839, the village shipyard was located at the present day town landing."

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

"… daily stream of people gather at the steamboat wharf to collect the mail, visit the shops, travel, or just see people."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… in Long Reach and built his yard and the first wharf in town at the foot of Federal Street, an area now covered by Bath Iron Works (BIW), north of…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"This was done on the wharf or in an open area on the first floor of a cannery, as shown in this photograph in the collections of the Maine Historical…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Soon wharfs, booms, and mills lined the Penobscot and Kenduskeag Rivers. In response to this economic phenomenon, the population of the town began to…"