Keywords: Houlton Farms dairy
Item 16573
Hayward Farms Milk Bottle, Houlton, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Houlton Media: Glass
Item 17245
Mooers Dairy Sled, Houlton, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Wood
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Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
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Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"government sent peacekeeping troops to Houlton and this initiated the building of the military road between Houlton and Bangor—this same road…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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