Maine Memory Network

Engineer's cottage on the Nonesuch River, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print

Moses Banks Map, Scarborough, 1787

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: 1787 Location: Scarborough Media: Paper and ink

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… and other yards were at Black Point on the Nonesuch River and the Libby River.(1) By the 1840s, a railroad drawbridge across the Scarborough River…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… were located at Sweetsers, just south of the Nonesuch River; Oak Hill; Scottow, just before the marsh; Southgate, on the Portland end of Dow’s…"