Keywords: Green farm
Item 76554
Updated Green Farm, North Waterford, ca. 1990
Contributed by: Waterford Historical Society Date: circa 1990 Location: North Waterford Media: Photographic print
Item 13999
Charles A. Green, Brewer, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: circa 1870 Location: Brewer Media: Albumen print
Exhibit
Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Green's Department Store
"In 1910, Green bought the Fred Porter Store. The old building was lost to a fire in the year 1912. Maurice Klein, from New York, rebuilt the building…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms
"Fox farms were a very large business. Fox farms were like having a farm with all kinds of animals on it."
Story
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
