Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Lumber and fish were bought and sold; fishing fleets sailed to the Grand Banks fishing grounds; and ships sailed to England, the West Indies and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"Gentle slopes led down to the deep and sheltered channels on tidal waterways. Timbers could be laid down on the shores for ships and then easily…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… of the remaining natives fled north to Canada and deep interior places where no Europeans cared to tread."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The men went deep sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals. Fall/Winter - Before the frosts came, the women and children went into the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Nearby, the deep and protected harbor of Somes Sound provided a means of shipping goods to market. Mount Desert Island Historical Society But all…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"It had lumber to build the ships, it had a deep protected harbor, and it had resources to ship. Sawmill at Mill Stream, Blue Hill, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… across the country for its lobby, known as the "Fish Pond," were young ladies lingered, "fishing" for husbands."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… the collective result of these processes is a deep, straight, five-mile shoreline ideally shaped for shipbuilding and easily reached by ocean-going…"