Maine Memory Network

Barn raising, Littleton, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Littleton Media: Photographic print

Farmhouse and barn, Lubec, ca. 1900

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

Opportunity Farm cow barn end framing, New Gloucester, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: University of Maine Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture

Brewster House Bed & Breakfast elevations, Freeport, 1993-1994

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1993–1994 Location: Freeport Clients: Matt Cartmell; Amy Cartmell Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson Architect

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.

Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"… the theater was owned by Mark Tuner and George Barnes of Presque Isle, and Newell Smith and Charlie Brooks of Ashland."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"He lived next door to a family who had a big barn and remembers running as fast as he could to get past the horses."

A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn

The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.