Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"The barrel loaders would collect the tickets so that the farmer could keep track of the number of barrels picked by each picker."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 3 of 5

"… Memories Click here to visit Richard Rand's Harvesting Potatoes. Potato Barrel Truck, Presque IslePresque Isle Historical Society"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 11 of 13

"Potato Barrel Truck, Presque IslePresque Isle Historical Society The truck on the right has a flat body. This truck has a hydraulic hoist."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"Workers there would unload the full barrels and put the empty barrels (empties) back onto the truck."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 12 of 13

"Barrel grapples come in different styles. The grapples on the right will hold onto the barrel better than the grapple on the left."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… 1879 the Swan’s Island fleet landed 15 thousand barrels of mackerel selling at $5 each. In 1881 three of the ten most successful boats of the New…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13

"… right was taken on the Laurence Park farm in 1950. It shows two men loading barrels and one man setting the barrels in place on the truck body"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"The workers would sing songs and play in the barrels. Edwena also had potato fights with her brothers and other kids."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"It takes about four baskets of potatoes to fill a barrel. A full basket will weigh about 30 pounds. The basket pictured here is 16 inches (40 cm) in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"<kids rolling on the barrels> As you can see, the younger pickers did not seem to mind a break. Students such as these would pick 15 to 40 barrels of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The potato truck had full and empty barrels on the back of it. When the truck went by Edwena never got a barrel."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"At that age she would pick about a barrel of potatoes a day, but as she got older she picked more. One day, at lunchtime, she and her bothers decided…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"On the right, two men are loading a barrel by hand. The man is on the truck is placing the barrels. Other trucks had a hydraulic hoist."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… boards 1/2 loaf of bread 1/2 bushel of potatoes 2 barrels of water 7 barrels of rice 1 bag of cotton 1 box of lemons The prices of most of these…"

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

"Pulp hooks, barrel hoists, and even knives could be made from worn digger lags. Former farmer Larry Park talks about diggers and digger lags."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… Maine This stencil was used to mark crates and barrels.Farmington Historical Society The Lowell homestead was on the Whittier Road, (now # 655…"

Historic Hallowell - The "World of Mirth" Carnival in Hallowell

"… on fire included their diving into a small barrel of water from high up! It was a family carnival but had some mature language and attractions."

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… with shingles, clapboards, hogsheads and barrel staves, white oak capstan bars destined for Boston or Bristol or Jamaica."

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

"… potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more baskets, no more tickets and no more picking potatoes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Fred Urquhart Farm, Presque Isle

"… of 8-16-20 fertilizer per acre, yielding 217 barrels of potatoes this field. Common fertilizers are rated as having certain variable percentages…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"… right away, and "pine boards and staves (for barrells) and clapboards" were among the first things made for trading purposes."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's plow, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… moulboard with hoop iron taken from iron hooped barrels the two prongs which I made the handles of started from the maine stump about a foot from…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII Fishing and shipbuilding led the state of Maine into its “Golden Economic Age” in the 1850s, as…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!

"Welcome to Swan's Island! Burnt Coat Harbor X Swan's Island, a six mile ferry ride out of Bass Harbor in Mount Desert Island, is the current…"