Keywords: High wheel
Item 34598
A.L.T. Cummings and his bicycle, Biddeford, 1888
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1888 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 28727
The Old and the New, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Many different types of trolley cars -- for different weather, different uses, and different locations -- were in use in Maine between 1895-1940. The "field guide" explains what each type looked like and how it was used.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4
"Fall and spring it traveled on wheels and in the winter on runners.The number of school children riding school buses in Scarborough has risen…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3) At each mile a stake was driven into the ground and a crew…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
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.
