Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"Workers produced building stones, paving stones and statuary and monuments. The paving stones, 6x8 inches, sold for 20 cents apiece and were shipped…"

Historic Hallowell - One of Many Monuments

"… to the dimensions of the actual size so the stone carvers could begin their work. The actual monument stands 81 feet high and weighs 180 tons."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Theater

"… group, the Hockamock Players, put on theater productions. Usually there was a play shown in the summer as entertainment for the summer population…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry

"1990Swan's Island Historical Society Mariculture Products started a salmon farm that was obtained and renamed Island Aquaculture by a local group in…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"… a team of horses, most likely to transport his products. The store ran in the period of Swan's Island history when the steamboat still connected…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner Stone Bridge over Vaughan Brook. Vaughan Brook tumbled into the Kennebec on the north side of Sheppard's…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… Economic Age” in the 1850s, as demand for Maine products grew and statewide population more than doubled."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"In 1988, Mariculture Products started a salmon farm that was obtained and renamed "Island Aquaculture" by a local group in 1993."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… to expand his business he began to advertise a product for the relief of heart trouble which he manufactured under the name of The Heart Cure…"

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"Both pot-ash and pearl-ash were worth more than any other product a farmer could produce, and large quantities were shipped from Hallowell until the…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… Hallowell and where was the cargo shipped to? The products shipped were: granite, wood ashes, lumber, sheep, chickens, and ice, according to Sam…"

Historic Hallowell - Communication

"… work well, so they took it to an automobile show in New York in the early 1900‘s. Unfortunately, not many people were interested in the product."

Historic Hallowell - The Fuller Foundry

"These products were recognized as being average quality, for they weren't the best or the worst. Broken Iron Castings, Fuller Foundry…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… the Plymouth Plantation with a cargo of corn, the product of one of the new colony’s first successful harvests, hoping to establish trade with the…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… Library One of the more common, but interesting, products was handmade clothes pins produced by one of the city’s more colorful tradesmen, Johnny…"

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"… Two hundred workers were required during peak production in the Cotton Mill in Hallowell, Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"… at all, for it was natural and was in major production, but metal, on the other hand,was hard to find and was not in major production."

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"Though it was a very productive factory, all good things come to a close. This is all about the timeline of the Johnson Brothers Shoe Factory."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… too, but they also hunted, fished and worked as stone-cutters. Toddy Pond itself was not a pond, but rather a river valley known as Eastern River…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… been employed in labor upon the streets, blasting stone, preparing them for use, and in removing loom from the gravel pit and spreading it upon the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"A memorial stone in the East Wilton cemetery states that his grave is in Gettysburg and his last words were “Tell my Mother that I died fighting for…"

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

"Carrying stone over water was sometimes perilous: stone sloops sank more readily than the timber schooners in bad weather."