Maine Memory Network

Dredger, Saco River, ca. 1915

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1915 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Photographic print

The Desert of Maine, Freeport, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Freeport Media: Linen texture postcard

History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways

Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"Silt from rivers and streams washed into low-lying, protected tidal estuaries and began to build up."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Clay left behind from the silt of the rising and ebbing river waters allowed Farmington to have two brickyards in the 1870’s."