Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Day 4 - Page 1 of 3

"Now there were 270,000 outages of power and 500,000 people are without power! Over 11,000 Canadian troops came to help."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell

"Enduring blistering winds and never-ending power outages. See what I mean? Tree branches are snapping, and ice is overlapping."

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… so I could get the job done before the next outage. There was never an end to any of it. My wife was not having any better of a time."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"… storm destroyed power lines, which caused tons of outages. Homes also were destroyed causing people to become homeless and businesses to no longer…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"Rumford Falls Power completed an expansion of their power generation capabilities in 1954 by installing two new penstocks from the middle canal to…"