Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"The cutters and blacksmiths in the city joined the national Granite Cutters Union in 1888. The quarrymen and engineers later joined the Quarrymen's…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"Deering’s son Frank Cutter Deering joined the business. The Saco River Driving Company served as the wood operation and river driving subsidiary of J."

Historic Hallowell - One of Many Monuments

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner Statuary cutter Joseph Archie stands on Faith's outstretched arm."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… 50 years, it employed close to 500 skilled stone cutters and sculptors, many of whom came from the British Isles, Spain and Italy."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Eddie's Market

"… age twenty working for Howard Michaud as a meat cutter and clerk. Michaud’s store was on the corner of State and Exchange Streets."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Student genealogy

"Fritz was reported to be the fastest paving stone cutter of his time. Dori Lemoine, one of Michael Fournier's 6-8th grade students, is a resident…"

Maine Granite Industry Historical Society

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Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"… moulder, which is a machine that shapes wood with cutters like sharp knives, they went into wood-turning lathes."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"As the Revenue Cutter Service, the maritime law enforcement arm of the Treasury Department, morphed into the U."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… served in the Union Navy as a Capt on the revenue cutter USS Delaware patrolling the Potomac River. Harbor Cottage Northeast Harbor…"

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"From East Dixfield the Apple Cutter, Patented October 20, 1857 and the Apple Corer, Patented April 6, 1869, were designed by Nathaniel Thomas. R.S."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"X J. Cutters Inn Tavern Sign, New England, ca. 1802 Oil on wood Courtesy of Bevinn O'Brien From the earliest decades of English settlement in Maine…"

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

"Benjamin Cutter of Bangor bought 66 acres east of Second Pond where he established the long running Blue Hill Copper Mining and Smelting Company."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… 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 until…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… holdings • President Washington organized Revenue Cutter Service commissioning Hopley Yeaton as its first officer – America’s first commissioned…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… a wonderful description of the skilled work: “The cutter takes several fish in the left hand at once and, with a large knife in the right, cuts off…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… 1790 President Washington organized the Revenue Cutter Service (later to become the United States Coast Guard), commissioning Hopley Yeaton as its…"