Maine Memory Network

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

"Ship’s joiners and carpenters had their choice of jobs, and more accomplished finish carpenters were in high demand."

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"… a modeling and sculpture studio, carpenter's shop, blacksmith's shop, stable, wagon house, storehouse, boiler-house with stack and a rail siding."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… lumber and produced cut lumber and moldings for carpenters and cabinetmakers, and also produced wood-block patterns for the oil-cloth factories."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"… Waldoboro in 1836, and apprenticed as a ship’s carpenter and house joiner with Robert Cushing. When Cushing died in 1840, Overlock, after building…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… at one time, employing fifty or seventy-five ship carpenters; with five or six woodcasters continually running to Boston, and even a larger number…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"… A Fugitive Slave In the spring of 1837, a carpenter named James Sagurs was hired by Captain Daniel Philbrook of Camden and Edward Kelleran of…"

Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"… Mott did the masonry work and Cal Staples was the carpenter. The roof was flat and in 1988, seventy years after it was built, it had never leaked…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"At this time he could be hired as a carpenter that remodeled houses or buildings. Andrew Johnson "Create a statement and prove or disprove it with…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Local carpenters and shipbuilders and local families built and owned the new hotels and the supporting businesses."

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

"… her grandfather, Asa Clough, Jr., was ship’s carpenter and master builder. Some of the vessels built in Blue Hill during the first half of the…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… and the first summer 80 people-- schoolteachers, carpenters, sawyers, clam diggers, children, architects and retirees--came together to perform the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… also talented furniture makers and “joiners” [carpenters]. They brought that talent to the Sandy River Valley when they migrated prior to 1800."

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

"Some people are carpenters and woodworkers, while others make wedding cakes, take pictures, write books, and create works of art."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… who harvested the timber, and to blacksmiths, carpenters, ship-chandlers and other suppliers of materials needed to construct the yards and…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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