Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

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

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"Molasses is used to make industrial alcohol which is needed to make explosives. Explosives are needed to sink the Axis!" Protecting Our Community…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"Crosby and his son, John, traded in sugar, molasses, and lumber with the West Indies. In 1806 he became the first president of the Penobscot Bank in…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… to the buying and selling of goods, including molasses, sugar, and rum from the West Indies. X Artisans were attracted to Summer Street’s…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"… voyages had carried everything from fertilizer to molasses all over the world. In Aug 1937 she loaded 1,500,000’ of lumber at Halifax and sailed…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

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

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… with the West Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses and lumber principally.” He was the owner of the first ship, the schooner Dispatch, built…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… could eat, they traded it for flour, sugar, soap, molasses, and oil. They eventually shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York and to Europe."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… as a way to become less dependent on imported molasses and sugar from the West Indies. Maple candy is documented as being made prior to 1864."

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

"Flour was sold by the barrel, and molasses came from a big hogshead kept in the back room. There was also a big kerosene barrel, and customers came…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… the Philbricks, crafted cream pots, bean crocks, molasses jugs, milk pans and other vessels from the red clay of the nearby riverbanks."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… coal and flour from Boston, as well as sugar, molasses, rum, guano, coffee, fruit and spices from the West Indies."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"After cooking to the consistency of molasses, it was strained to skim off all remaining bark and twigs to then leave the cooked resin."