Maine Memory Network

William Haley, Jr. farmhouse, Sebago, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Sebago Media: Photographic print

Thomas Richardson farmhouse, Strong, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Strong Media: Glass Negative

Reed property, Joseph Reed Farmhouse, Little Chebeague Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Joseph B. Reed Use: Summer Dwelling

Pike Farmhouse Measured for Neal W. Allen, Sebago, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Sebago Client: Neal W. Allen Architect: John Howard Stevens; John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

The Haven, Bar Harbor, 1924-1994

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1924–1994 Location: Bar Harbor Client: Mrs. G. H. Milliken Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
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Farm-yard Frames

Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)

Student Exhibit: A Civil War Soldier from Skowhegan

Alexander Crawford a soldier from Skowhegan, was born in 1839 on a farm on the Dudley Corner Road in Skowhegan. He served in the Civil War and returned to Skowhegan to run the family farm.

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place

"… will sit beside what once must have been a farmhouse. One feels in the presence of each house a sense of history, of how numerous other generations…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Historical Society

"Our building, the General Henry Knox Farmhouse, opens at 7:00 p.m. on meeting days for a social hour prior to the meeting."

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.

My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham

A story about my father and our family.