Maine Memory Network

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 - Train Wreck Of 1937

"The library received heavy damage to the rear wall. The total numbers of cars that went off the rails were three. One rolled in to Mr."

Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Poem

"… a disaster I feel bad for its old master With the wall opened big The librarian did a little jig The work crews ran like bats out of a well Luckily…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… was located at the bulkhead, which is a dividing wall between compartments in a ship. Also, there was a commuter train called the Dummy."

Historic Hallowell - The Hallowell Union Fire Club

"… residents, John Agry, Benjamin Page, Ariel Wall, Chandler Robbins, Thomas Agry, Samuel Sumner Wilde, and Nathan Moody, who paved the way for the…"

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"Ice jams of the river had tore walls off riverside buildings leaving out the building that was thrust into Water St.."

Historic Hallowell - Historic Hallowell Resources and Links

"… and a variety of separate maps, including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript. Visit the collection at http://www.davidrumsey.com/index.html"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Plaster was used for making and fixing walls. In the end, the mill was bought out by Ben Tenney and made into five other mills with the last being…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… head deck while the other end was pinned to the wall supporting the roof. Giant, wooden bolts were used to hold everything into place; they would…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"… yet to be cleared from the field beyond the stone wall. A ship enters the harbor, while three other ships are under construction."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"… this new company was built in front of the prison wall on the county road. It was named after W. W. Rice, a prison official who served as foreman."

William Fogg Public Library

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… construction with iron beams inside the stone walls. The original building was completely made of granite."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Maine will notice remnants of the past: stone walls that once enclosed open fields, lilac-shrouded cellar holes that once housed thriving families…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"… chimneys at each end, and chimneys along the back wall. The entrance was on Preble Street; the back of the home faced the side of the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… for all who chose to occupy them, and a tier of wall pews in the rear… The pulpit… was elevated according to the custom which prevailed in those…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"… Commission In 2006, while rebuilding the garden wall along the original Wadsworth property line, workers noticed broken glass and ceramics in the…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"He returned to Hartford to build a stone wall 100 rods long in eight weeks for $100. With his earnings he bought a pair of oxen for $50 and sold them…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The car’s walls were lined with charcoal (which did not conduct the outside heat to the inside of the car) and ice was placed in a tube on either…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The gypsum and grinding stones to supply the mills were among the goods smuggled into the country from Nova Scotia."