Keywords: Sandy River Packing Company
Item 27515
Corn Can Label, Farmington, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper
Item 109061
Puddle Dock, Belfast, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Belfast Media: Glass Plate Negative
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"… now being constructed from the left bank of the Sandy River, across the intervening intervale, to their new depot grounds in this village."
