Maine Memory Network

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)…"

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…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… winter on runners.The number of school children riding school buses in Scarborough has risen dramatically since then and the standard yellow school…"

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

"… where he could have horses to ride and drive carriages. Unable to convince his wife Margaret to move to the country from their home in Falmouth, he…"

Skyline Farm

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"… bread products, apples, pears, farming tools, carriages and harnesses. Also, quilts and spreads, carpets, rugs and plants, fancy work, taxidermy."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… community bustled with leisure activities such as carriage rides, day hikes, evening lectures, small gatherings for tea and family celebrations…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"Activities of the rusticators included carriage rides, sailing, hiking, tennis, golf, and elegant parties."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"Sesquicentennial - Baby Carriage ParadeGuilford Historical Society Some other events were oxen pulling, barbeque, canoe races, log chopping contest…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"members who rode in carriages. The G.A.R., Grand Army of the Republican, was a fraternal organization of union Civil War veterans."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… for someone on foot, 31 cents for a horse and carriage, and 3 cents apiece for sheep or pigs. Shipbuilding had started, of course, with the first…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"The business had ramps that were used to haul vehicles between the ground level and second floor. A sign advertised Chase as a "Manufacturer of…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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