Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle’s Historic Fire Station

"… (top floor), fire house (main floor) and jail (cellar). An addition was built in 1950 to house the larger ladder trucks."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"… had recess, they had to throw wood down into the cellar so that the teacher could get it later for it to be burned in a wood stove."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Design for rustic fence, gate, Bangor, 1867

"… should constitute three, well the fourth, his cellar the fifth his grounds the sixth, the passage to a house barn garden field or pasture is one…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"There are still two cisterns in the cellar that were the water supply, and Clevie's original workbench still stands out back."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… that once enclosed open fields, lilac-shrouded cellar holes that once housed thriving families, two-rut roads that lead seemingly nowhere."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… when people couldn’t store their food in the cellar any longer without it going bad we would start delivering it."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

"It was used in the Prohibition wine cellar of Bath's Harold M. Sewall. Keeping, drinking, and serving alcohol was by no means limited to one social…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"… of an hotelier's job was to maintain a fine wine cellar. Indeed, many of a hotel's profits were realized from the sale of alcoholic beverages, as…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… when people couldn’t store their food in the cellar any longer without it going bad we would start delivering it."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… which customers would take home to hang in their cellars. In January, 1866, the store burned, but a portion was saved by a volunteer bucket brigade…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… "We are now having a furnace set in the cellar which we are promised will have the effect of warming the whole house…" - Zilpah Wadsworth…"

Acadian Archives

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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