Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"Our hardware store is my comparison to Weatherbee Hardware. Zachary Savage "How does this topic connect to you in your life today?" This connects…"

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943

"Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This display shows…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Memorial Day, Presque Isle, 1888

"Freeman Hardware Store. Above the store door is the name, "Bouquet." Above the second floor is the sign, "Photography Rooms." Note the late 1880's…"

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street

"… Stevens X Main Street Looking South photo by Roger Stevens X Smart's Hardware Store, Lincoln, ca. 1928Lincoln Historical Society"

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… flour, West India sugar, and English cloth and hardware, returning with shingles, clapboards, hogsheads and barrel staves, white oak capstan bars…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"The John Scales building was one of the oldest hardware stores and was sold to Keith Farnham on July 26, who changed the name to Guilford Hardware."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"… medical supplies, codfish, tea, molasses, rum, hardware, and bolts of cloth. The Bob Cat Inn and Reed Livery Stables stood across the street from…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"Lovell's Guilford Hardware still occupies the site today. Lovell's Guilford Hardware X W. G. BLAKE'S AGENCY X This office building was…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… Furniture Store, two beer parlors, Weatherbee’s Hardware Store, The Community Movie Theater, the “Five & Dime” Variety Store, Haley’s Construction…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… ships returning with salt, coal, dry goods and hardware. His store, one of three businesses at an area referred to as the Upper Corner, the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… all tarry seafaring things…” Kimball’s story sold hardware, dry goods, flour, marine supplies and sundries."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"It was said that the lines of clothing, hardware, shoes, and ship chandlery were the best east of Bangor. Lubec stores seemed primitive by comparison."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… existed for 100 years, specializing in groceries, hardware and ship chandler's supplies. In Dark Harbor, Williams Brothers operated a large grocery…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Mr. Weatherbee owned and operated Weatherbee Hardware on the opposite side of the street. The store needed to expand, and Mr."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… including a furniture factory, livery stables, hardware stores, blacksmith shops, schools, post office, telegraph lines and a telephone service."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… here in 1851 and Dunn's Store sold clothes, hardware and food. There was a gristmill and a blacksmith shop."