Maine Memory Network

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

"By the summer of 2000, the Skyline Farm organization and the Sowles family arranged a purchase with a conservation easement through the Royal River…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… generated by the students and resources from each team organization, team members lent their personal expertise to building each of the exhibits."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington High School Football Team, 1911

"Farmington High School Football Team, 1911 Contributed by Farmington Historical Society Description The Farmington High School football…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington High School Basketball Team, 1911

"Farmington High School Basketball Team, 1911 Contributed by Farmington Historical Society Description The 1911 Farmington High School…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington High School girls basketball team, 1919

"Farmington High School girls basketball team, 1919 Contributed by Farmington Historical Society Description Group portrait of the 1919…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle High School Basketball Team 1913

"Presque Isle High School Basketball Team 1913 Contributed by Presque Isle Historical Society Description A Group photograph of the Presque…"

Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"Our Work and Our Team The seeds of this effort can be traced back to the founders of our City, to the generous patrons who funded our library, built…"

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

"… grain to feed working teams of horses and oxen.” (Teams were not only on farms but were working in the woods logging)."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Farmington Historical Society Farmington High School Football Team, ca. 1920 This team had limited safety equipment."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - About Us

"We have established a foundation that will allow this team to grow and allow this project to continue as we share the rich and dynamic history that…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"Abbott School Track Team, Farmington, 1918Farmington Historical Society Abbot Junior College Flyer, 1928Farmington Historical Society The…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 2 of 3

"The teams were made up of only boys, but the girls could cheer for them. The Presque Isle boys were named the Indians, but Dorothy cheered for the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"… the digger and powered the digger mechanism, the horses tired easily. They had to rest frequently or were replaced by another team of horses."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… so popular during this time that even sporting teams did not elicit the same amount of interest that the contests between the local horses did."

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 1 of 3

"Those teams had no real coach because they all knew about baseball. During one game PCHS was playing, a big thunderstorm came and it started…"

Cumberland Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"They had 10 teams and the horses were used for various jobs. The mills in Stockholm employed most of the people in town."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"My son must be supplied with teams for his fire wood and necessary teaming. The sheep and poultry you will take especial care that they are well fed…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"These traveling teams had names as colorful as the players themselves; like the House of David team with all the players sporting long dark beards…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Strong's first baseball team won their first nine games without a coach. Starting in the 1920s, students began to compete in intermural basketball…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… to local historian Ruth Kidder: Often the team was harnessed and the wagon filled for a trip to White Cap in neighboring Rumford."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Byron Weston's ox team (picture shown below) was first used to haul blocks of ice from Cascade Pond to the Arthur Moore ice house between Middle and…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Byron Weston's ox team (picture shown below) was first used to haul blocks of ice from Cascade Pond to the Arthur Moore ice house between Middle and…"