Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Sometimes the cakes were broken apart. Men would guide blocks of ice towards the conveyor belt that lifted the ice into the ice houses for shipping…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"So the army people had to take the bateaux apart, carry the pieces over the falls, and then they tried to put them back together."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"These apartment complexes housed many of the less well-paid workers of the mills. According to a Rumford Falls Times article of August 4, 1923 by a…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"The Turner House served as an apartment building complex. The Braeburn building finally burned down in early March of 2003."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… Goodwin, who converted the hotel into small apartments. Braeburn & Edes Buildings, Guilford, ca."

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"… sent to war, which means that families were torn apart. Also, businesses were affected because they lost lot’s of employees from having to quit to…"

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

"Apart from the fishing industry, many laborers were attracted to Swan’s Island’s quarries. The largest of these, the Baird's Quarry in Minturn…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… of years that really set the teams of that era apart from the rest. It was in the Fall of 1971, when the Rumford basketball dynasty really began."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"What sets it apart is its unusual, wood cut illustrations, depicting, and occasionally naming local, tipplers."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… to a large credit union chain building, a large apartment complex (Washington House) and one of Bath's few traffic lights."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"There were large families living in small apartments. (These buildings have now all been torn down as part of an urban renewal project in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Keith hoped to find a apartment and a job at White Castle. After ten months, he hoped to have enough money to support his family and buy the fox farm."

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… building was sold to Thelma White and became an apartment building. We also had a nursing home located in South Lincoln."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Apart from being a very well-known writer, Mrs. Kline also served some time in the U.S. military. After her writing career kicked off, she went back…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Across the street, a senior citizens’ apartment complex has risen from the site where the three-story mall once stood."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… Walnut Hill and East North Yarmouth, four miles apart, were equally busy. The two villages often saw themselves as separately aligned: East North…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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