Keywords: whole milk
Item 16573
Hayward Farms Milk Bottle, Houlton, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Houlton Media: Glass
Item 16571
Cream separator, Littleton, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Littleton Media: Metal
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad
"Farm. Yard with horses, wagons, milk cans-needed) and brought new business to Lowell’s Store. Croswell's Store c."
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley
"Ben’s family probably drank a lot of milk in their days so it was good to have cattle to provide milk for them."
Story
Bert Gagne-from star athlete to community barber
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Bert’s personal account of his lifelong non-stop approach including his 60+ years as a barber.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
