Keywords: Apple trees
Item 99326
Greenleaf Walton's apple crop, East Dixfield, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print
Item 102447
Detailed study of apple blossoms, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
Exhibit
The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families
The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin apple tree, Bangor, ca. 1862
"… sharp." In 1862, the tree was heavily laden with apples when a September tornado split the tree and "laid the largest half on the ground." View…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Ladies Blush apple, Bangor, 1889
"… a prolific bearer & resembled the snow or Famouse apple this tree bore every year a loaded crop and in a few years ceased bearing and died, my…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
