Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

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

Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"… Cyclones, Storms, and Fixing the City by Gabby Horse A stable maybe I am stuck and it is tight Help has come for me Boy In a dark tight space A…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"Horsing iron, and jerry iron worked together on this, the horsing iron has caulk away deck seams while the Jerry Iron had to extract old seems from…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… dock, the cotton was brought up to the mill by horse and wagon. When the cotton was shipped out, they were brought to other places by railroad."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Using a long saw, picks, and horses as hauling devices to pull the ice off the river. Once the ice was off the river, it would be pulled by horse to…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"“Once there was enough ice for the horses then you would cut holes and set up the loading platform and wait for it to freeze in solid."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"A horse had gotten trapped inside a compartment made by scattered debris that was barely bigger than it's stable! After " A little boy named…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… and were usually pulled by 8 to 10 teams of horses or oxen. Granite the from the Stinchfield and Longfellow quarries on Lithgow Hill (known today…"

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… entries record the many times she fell from her horse, sometimes seriously injuring herself in her efforts to reach a patient in distress."

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… Library The machine was built to be hauled by a horse team or truck. The Tiger had a team of forty people who pumped water into the hose and onto…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"A horse was trapped in the stable but later rescued. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library Half of the Cotton Mill roof was…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The ice was cut by hand. After the snow was scraped from the area, the ice was plowed out. The ice plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The ice was cut by hand. After the snow was scraped from the area, the ice was plowed out. The ice plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a…"

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

"… Free Library Once there was enough ice for the horses then you would cut holes and set up the loading platform and wait for it to freeze in solid."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"… was made of hydrated lime, sand, water, and horse hair. The slate was made of clay or volcanic ash."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"… worsted hose (stockings), hats, caps, boots and shoes. Crops exhibited and judged, included: wheat, barley, corn and flax, along with hives of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… that steps with you then see the glitter of your shoe, when You have set the pace they follow in your dust John R Braden you’re a winner just as…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Once cut, horses and oxen, shod in bog shoes, hauled the harvested hay to staddles. To increase acreage yields, large-scale diking was undertaken."

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"… “Cove” room, the “Little Folks” section, and the shoe department (located in the center of the store), the sportswear section, and the jewelry and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"Shoe boxes and small pouches filled with various buttons were crammed into the shopping bag. Glass jars and minuscule handmade envelopes- all filled…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… her sons in Lewiston, supporting them with a shoe factory job. The Maine Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Cody in 1979, noting her as Maine’s…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… repairing a Marlin Spike, 2 augers, a crow bar To shoeing a horse To mending a Mill Bar for Sam’l Wheeler Contra By a pair of boots By a bushel of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… 60 Horses and Mules; A large lot of Boots & shoes; cloth ect. ect. I can assure you that Maine has got its name up during this campaign and so high…"

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."