Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Carl Rowe seining in a weir, Swan's Island ca. 1930Swan's Island Historical Society From 1874 until 1889 Swan’s Island fishing boats took first or…"

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

"Three men rowed out to the Thomas and were able to get a line onto the ship and safely rescue the crew."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… & Museum The first King’s Highway had two rows of cartwheel ruts with a footpath in the middle."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Southern islanders rowed to Lincolnville, borrowed a team and drove to Camden for a doctor. Northern islanders rowed to Castine for medical help."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"… grows" : The Thursday Club "Rocking Chair Row" program, Biddeford, 1930Biddeford Historical Society The club, from the beginning…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"Each wing consisted of two rows of cells, each cubicle about 4.5’ x almost 9’ and about 10’ deep, exposed to the elements below ground level."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"X Where Do They Go? When They Row, Row, Row Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder Co., 1920 Collections of Maine Historical Society; gift of Harland H."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"From the Cranberry Isles, that was seven miles. Baptists added an overland trek to their rowing. This time also saw new settlements."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… is buried the Cross Road Cemetery in Surry in a row of Treworgy children who all died before their time."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"Before motors were made the Maine guides had to row wooden boats and canoes a lot around the local ponds and lakes."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"When the river was high and swift, they would be rowed across by boat. In 1894, George W. Ridlon arrived in Mexico."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… set, there were reserved chairs in the front rows covered by an awning, and the remaining seating consisted of settees, for the common folk…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a row of sharp teeth which cut a narrow furrow six or seven inches deep."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a row of sharp teeth which cut a narrow furrow six or seven inches deep."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… and Yarmouth, A History: 1636-1936, William Rowe observed that “In early New England the history of the church is the history of the community.”…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… throughout Washington County, many living in rows of company houses built by factory owners. Men gathered the herring from weirs, transported them…"

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

"North Yarmouth [i]Gazettes[i] Rowe, William Hutchinson. [b]Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine, 1636-1936.[b] Yarmouth, Maine, 1937."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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