Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"Usually the teamster would have to hook the lags back together. This slowed things down, but gave a break to the potato pickers and other field…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"… some to tend to the sled and horses (called a teamster), and someone to help unload at the landing (called a yard man)."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"and Samuel Parker were the boss teamsters. This was in June 1841. In August of that year the cables were strung, and before cold weather the bridge…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… 115 miners in town, not counting the laborers and teamsters employed by the mines. In early 1880 there were 29 mining companies in Blue Hill."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"In 2009 he worked with a teamster to organize “Plow Day” during which five teams of draft horses plowed the fields that were originally farmed by the…"