Keywords: Low wheel
Item 28727
The Old and the New, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 16504
The Dam at Bridge Street, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Exhibit
The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13
"… bodies had a unique style with a box over the wheels to give clearance and with stakes around the outside that allowed a rope or a chain to hold…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream
"The turbine turned gears, wheels, and belts that powered the mill machinery. Whiting was made from finely powdered chalk."
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
