Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… foodstuffs, cooking utensils, basketmaking tools, and other necessities. Often, Wabanakis used chair backs as frames for wrapping long lengths of…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… cloth, wine, sugar loaves, molasses, rum, shoes, tools, different types of food that they did not already have, and sometimes ships brought things…"

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"Use the zoom tool for a closeup.Lubec Historical Society Attending North Lubec Elementary school, later Avery commuted to high school in Lubec’s…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"Ship's Caulking Tool KitDavistown Museum Work was plentiful for ship caulkers, whose job was to fill the seams between the wooden planking."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"… blowing nonstop till it ran out of steam and died away. Many of the workers just walked away from the hill, leaving tools and equipment behind."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… project digitally draws together information and tools traditionally used by academic researchers—including finding aids, collections databases…"

Music in Maine - HEAR

"Use the navigation tool on the left to explore the exhibition. Wax Cylinders Translating 1890 Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinders Click to hear Dwayne…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"Then came the Shelter Institute and Woodbutcher tools from 1991-1999 and the Bath Amusement Center from 1967-1971, and many people lived there as…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"All of these technological tools are essential for teachers and students on a daily basis. Discipline Olivia, grade 6 Scottow's Hill Rural…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"That way they could collect the tools they lost during the harvesting. You know, they would be cutting and lose a saw or something."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"Maps Maps are a powerful tool for representing an area visually or graphically; they symbolically depict relationships of objects in the area."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"… first plow, first harrow, first set of jointing tools, first brick kiln, and two pod augers (one for his use and one to borrow)."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"Using the Exhibit Builder tool provided on the Maine Memory Network, students pieced together paragraph after paragraph, bringing in the images they…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Meet Blue Hill's Project Team

"… a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… role in the Lincoln economy by bringing food, tools,and clothes that were not convenient to put on the railroad to Lincoln."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… formal training and using regular carpenter’s tools is astonishing.” Litchfield retired as a station agent at Candia, New Hampshire in 1941 and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… a big part of the school day and are an important tool in learning. Some classrooms even have SMART boards, interactive whiteboards that combine a…"

Maine State Museum

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Rumford Area Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… mittens on or the frost stuck their hands to the tools. Just a little wheat was raised and a few potatoes."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… bowling pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles. While water provided the power, the forests and fields provided the raw materials…"