Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Comparisons

"They both had wicked icy roads and a lot of car crashes. Also they had trees that had limbs that had been blown off from being so frozen and brittle."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"… other a small "two-bear trailer" pulled behind a car. Where this mini-menagerie arrived from I never found out, but as it was Bangor fair time I…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"There were trolley cars running back and forth to Bangor, and steam-powered vessels departing regularly from the wharf on the Penobscot to Boston."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"Her father and her whole family went in the car to the fair, which was about four miles from her house in the country."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… railroad that stretched a mile long complete with cars and 30 ton engine to accomodate their huge business."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"… would be a lot more involved than taking a car like we would today. It probably meant spending the night, preparing for the elements, and more."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"… he had attended the dedication via special rail car, returning to Portland and then to his New York City apartment."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"A carriage is a four-wheeled car that is pulled by two or more horses. He may have been the only wheelwright and carriage maker in Lincoln at that…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… is now progressing, it will be finished and the cars running over it by middle of September. We know little about the Depot buildings, other than…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… a long drive, but I’m sure that if you took the car and some furs to sell on the way for gas, you can get there fine.” “Now that wouldn’t help your…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"… the middle of 1904, the company was shipping two cars of product each week. The company also ran a starch factory from 1904 to 1909, when it was…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"By the time 1904 came they were shipping two cars of product each week. The company also ran a starch factory from 1904 though 1909."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"… Main Street in the 20th century Red Cross Car and Trailer, Main Street, Northeast Harbor, 1947Northeast Harbor Library By 1910, Northeast…"

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"Eventually neither cars nor the plows could even drive through it. Some areas of snow measured fifteen feet in depth."

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"They stayed for five years and invented the car horn. After the O’Brien Electrophone Company moved out, the Johnson Shoe Factory moved in and took…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"Like cars, and homes. The weathermen were warning people that the storm was going to last the rest of the week."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… snow covered the roads, and in the spring, the car would ruin the road because of the mud. According to Sam Webber."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"The car was powered by a small, locomotive engine. They drove it to Augusta and back to the McClench Machine Shop in Hallowell to be dismantled and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The advancement in refrigerated cars made the export of meat possible as well as improved the condition of eggs and fruit."

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"People were encouraged to ride together in cars. Although everything was rationed, there were still shortages; many items that would normally be…"

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"My parents register their cars there every year. The last way I can connect with this is, I usually watch the Lincoln Homecoming Parade from the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… area residents a carefree ride on an open trolley car, as well as admission to a destination that promised “good, healthy amusement for all” in a…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"(Lee) McCorison. It fit four passenger cars and crossed the bay in a half hour. The scow transported the first locally owned car to leave the island…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… of trees in our yard that we couldn’t get our cars out of our garage because the trees had fallen across the garage."