Keywords: Mountain View Farms
Item 16026
Mountain View Farms seed potato bag, Mapleton, ca. 1980
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1980 Location: Mapleton Media: Paper
Item 35500
Contributed by: D'Anne Baillargeon through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Ashland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… unstoppable waters, which rise and fall as the mountain tributaries overflow with melted ice and snow."
Site Page
Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
