Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"… pipes or sculling violently with single fourteen foot wide bladed oars to keep the rafts straight. Drift logs were a boom to dwellers along…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… from the Boston colony to a sheltering bay at the foot of the blue hill. Armed with a grant issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, they chose…"

Norway Memorial Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"… gatehouse was to be of a circular form with a 10 foot interior diameter. The three gates to maintain water flow were located inside."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… between Maine and Massachusetts was without sound footing from its infancy. In 1680, a petition from one hundred and eighteen inhabitants of…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… Bank building on lower State Street near the foot of State Street Hill. As a large crowd gathered to watch the disaster unfold, the fire consumed…"

Prince Memorial Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… operator can efficiently dismantle a 1,500 square foot house and put its mangled pieces in a dumpster to be hauled off in a matter of a few hours."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… the cemetery property with a reservation of a 50 foot square Savage family plot under a deed of trust recorded in Book 406, Page 127 of Hancock…"

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"… and by midnight on Sunday, there was a full foot of snow. Near the beginning of the storm, snow plows were able to clear the roads."

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… were being replaced by the easier to manage four-foot pulpwood logs, which were floated downstream all summer long."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… freezing, reduced the accumulated white stuff a foot, leaving the streets ankle deep in cold water."

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… feet by forty feet in size and having 13 1/2 foot studs) as well as fifteen cords of hard wood (cut and hauled), and an annual salary of two…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"Also in that year a new 53,000 square foot modern facility for sterilization of cotton tipped applicators was erected, centralizing all the medical…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"That helped them extremely. They sawed 4 foot bolt wood, mostly white birch and some maple. They used different types of wood for custom orders."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… bad spell Fly Rod was carried up to the foot of Mt Blue where she spent some time recovering."

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… mill trade working at Henry Dunbar's mill at the foot of Toddy Pond in Orland, where the state boat landing is now located."

Bridgton Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… elected to see that the town would be on stable footing for the coming year. Women did not have the right to vote at that time, so the men…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… their larger house, Hilltop, a 3,700 square foot, 5-bedroom, 2-bath home located directly across from the Asticou Inn, which had been designed…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… roads and businesses were suited for people on foot, carriage, or railroad. Typical of this era, a railroad and hotel built in 1816 named the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Thompson charged 10 cents for someone on foot, 31 cents for a horse and carriage, and 3 cents apiece for sheep or pigs."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… through some of the first families to ever set foot on Mt. Desert Island and the outlying crops of lands."