Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… at one time, employing fifty or seventy-five ship carpenters; with five or six woodcasters continually running to Boston, and even a larger number…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… and the first summer 80 people-- schoolteachers, carpenters, sawyers, clam diggers, children, architects and retirees--came together to perform the…"

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 - 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…"

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."

Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

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

"Thomas Lord, at first a ship’s carpenter, made sketches of classical buildings while on shore leave in the Mediterranean."

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 - Rustication

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

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…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… who harvested the timber, and to blacksmiths, carpenters, ship-chandlers and other suppliers of materials needed to construct the yards and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… also talented furniture makers and “joiners” [carpenters]. They brought that talent to the Sandy River Valley when they migrated prior to 1800."