Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… speculations, navigation, agricultural societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"… Point at the end of the stream is shaped like India, and, for that reason, early English settlers named it after the city of Bombay India, and the…"

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… open Atlantic, bringing Pennsylvania flour, West India sugar, and English cloth and hardware, returning with shingles, clapboards, hogsheads and…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 1 of 2

"… white embroidery found on some imported India cottons. From its start, the tubular silhouette was aided by elongated corsets that smoothed the body…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"Ice harvesting was not only a local, state or national trade, ice was shipped all over the world as far as South America, India and China."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"… carry on extensive business in English and West India goods. The Honorable William King of Bath, who owned the Knox Wharf at the foot of Wadsworth…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"… as building rows in the area of Broad Street and India Street, replacing decaying wharves; and the Dover Street Bridge between Boston and South…"

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

"… business was in the Far East: particularly China, India, and Southeast Asia. Tremendous numbers of workers were needed for the textile mills, and…"

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

"… from New York to California, cotton from India to England, and bird guano from South America to Europe."