Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"The nation turned to coal, iron, and oil. Maine’s decreased role in the national trend toward industrial growth would later become an attraction when…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"No spas. No second homes or cottages. Nothing. Ironically, a few descendants now store some of their lobster traps and fishing gear there."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Apparently, nothing more elaborate than a cast iron pot was at the heart of this fantastic device."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… was 4’8” with the earliest rails being strap iron spiked to 6” planks; each plank was 14 feet long."

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

"… individual stoves for heating their soldering iron. The report said “they are ‘the can makers,’ so called, who solder in the bottoms” of the cans…"

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

"… is so called after a certain style of old clothes iron which had a hollow base into which a heated triangular metal piece would fit that kept the…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… manufactured including those made from steel and iron including cider mills, axes, scythes, and other tools."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… must cross on piles – some 800 feet, and the old Iron Horse, with his freight of timber and piles, goes over it a distance of about 600 feet."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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