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Keywords: Mechanics Row

Historical Items

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Item 81048

Mechanics Institute Basketball Team, Rumford, ca. 1970

Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print

Item 22101

One row Hoover paddle digger, New Sweden, ca. 1922

Contributed by: Nylander Museum Date: circa 1922 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print

Item 6558

North Bridge over the Androscoggin River, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Androscoggin Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151568

J. B. Brown town houses on West St., Portland, 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Portland Client: J. B. Brown & Sons Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

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.

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Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… in the lower level of the Silver Spur Club in Mechanic Falls, making Maine the only state northeast of Nashville to have its own country music hall…"

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"Tractors were soon pulling two-row diggers so that by the late 1940s there were few one-row diggers in use."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"Victor potato digger, Littleton, c. 1920Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Two horses were necessary to pull these early potato diggers. The…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… had a gasoline engine mounted on it to power the mechanical parts. This made the digger easier for the horses to pull."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Harold's Garage, Rome Hollow, Maine
by Mimi C

Story about Harold Hawes, owner of Harold's garage and self-styled auctioneer in Rome Hollow, Maine