Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"These men made up rafts of logs for the several owners by laying them crosswise of the raft, driving oak pins into the opposite ends of every sixth…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… men aboard slowly made its way up the Kennebec River. They had sailed from the Plymouth Plantation with a cargo of corn, the product of one of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

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

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"In Augusta, the flood stage for the Kennebec River was up to 13 feet. There is no information recorded saying the number of people injured or the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Once the ice was off the river, it would be pulled by horse to the nearest ice house. There the ice blocks would run down a ramp, to be set by tons…"

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"1890Hubbard Free Library In A Maritime History of Bath and the Kennebec River Region, William Avery Baker pointed out that ..."

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"… would carry the leather buckets to the Kennebec River, fill them with water, and lug them back up to the burning house to douse the fire."

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… by razing all the buildings between the Kennebec River and Water Street, including the commercial areas known as Merchant’s Row and Kennebec Row."

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies

"… -- a wilderness area well inland on the Kennebec River. The people who came here to begin a new life determined to make it more than a place to…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… several ice houses, and the ice was cut from the river in an area about one mile up and shipped to big cities like Boston and New York."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"They would build ships on the Kennebec River and then send them to sea to ship goods to other cities like Boston or New York City and return with…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"4, 2010). Hunton, F. D., Kennebec River Flood, Business district, Hallowell, 1870, Hallowell ME, 1870, http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=29193…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… of goods and people across and up and down the rivers and lakes of Maine and any place they were needed."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The river got very polluted when the sewage and toilet waste got flushed into the river. All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The river got very polluted when the sewage and toilet waste got flushed into the river. All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"4, 2010). Hunton, F. D., Kennebec River Flood, Business district, Hallowell, 1870, Hallowell ME, 1870, http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=29193…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"He worked as a river guide until he became Governor of the Penobscot tribe on October 5, 1880. Stephen probably made changes to the Penobscot people…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"… was a small hill not far from the Penobscot River, called Ballard Hill. The townspeople did most of the work themselves."

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Moor. Mr. Moor died in the Mattawamkeag River trying to cross the river to give the north part of Mattawamkaeg its mail."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"More modern travelers had the option of driving up Route 2, along the river from Howland or down from Medway."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… of his sons) went to Enfield and drowned in the river. He made his way north in 1824 with all of his family, where on the Winn borderline he built…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"John River Valley , N. Aroostook Co., Me. and Madawaska Co., NB: A History of the Communities and People. Web. 8 Apr. 2010."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

""Up-River Weekly News: South Lincoln." Ed. Alan H. Hawkins. The Mattanawcook Observer, Volume 2 Number 1 Oct. 1983: 20. Print."

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."