Keywords: carriage ride
Item 109040
Farmington Normal students in a horse and carriage, 1917
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1917 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic image
Item 34016
Buggy Ride to South Blue Hill, 1907
Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library Date: 1907 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print
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The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… by the mile, Franklin rode the post roads in his carriage with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3)…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4
"… any extra pleasure trips, and fewer people were riding the trolley to Portland for shopping. Despite attempts to save the lines, all Greater…"
