Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… Waldo Street Fire slide show The Waldo Street Fire was, and still is, Rumford’s most serious fire."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle’s Historic Fire Station

"The 1912 building served as the municipal court (top floor), fire house (main floor) and jail (cellar)."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… 4 Commissioned Officers; - 43 Privates; 60 Horses and Mules; A large lot of Boots & shoes; cloth ect. ect."

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… this long reign, Bass Park has seen it all: horse and car racing on its half-mile track, polo, baseball, circuses, soccer, carnivals, tractor…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Print. Bangor Lumber Company lumbermen with horses, ca. 1910Bangor Public Library Lumber schooners on the Penobscot River at Bangor, ca."

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"One fire case was on Fourth of July, 1962. The fire men were off at a muster when a fire started in a building."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"… the number of accidents between automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles. In 1910 Scarborough citizens, following Portland’s lead, voted to limit the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"The big barn, while continuing to stable horses and farm equipment also became part of a taxi and vehicle storage business established in 1926 by…"

Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"… Cyclones, Storms, and Fixing the City by Gabby Horse A stable maybe I am stuck and it is tight Help has come for me Boy In a dark tight space A…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… owners to add hitching rails for their patrons’ horses if they wished. In her memoir, Down Memory Lane, Emily Phillips Reynolds recalls the Ober…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… over Scottow's Hill, but the hill was so steep horses had to be switched at the top to complete the journey."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Oak Hill station was a busy shipping point for horses and livestock for the Union Army.(6) Scarboro Beach Railroad Station, 1909Scarborough…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… ShowJesup Memorial Library A fine stable of horses carried great prestige among Mount Desert’s summer elite as did winning a ribbon in the annual…"

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

"… the first school bus in town, pulled by a team of horses. The conveyance, built of wood, was rectangular in shape with seats along either side…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"Horsing iron, and jerry iron worked together on this, the horsing iron has caulk away deck seams while the Jerry Iron had to extract old seems from…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - You Can Get Here From There

"… not only people, but construction materials, horses, and other important goods. This exhibit was put together by the 2007 sixth grade at Mount…"

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… dock, the cotton was brought up to the mill by horse and wagon. When the cotton was shipped out, they were brought to other places by railroad."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Using a long saw, picks, and horses as hauling devices to pull the ice off the river. Once the ice was off the river, it would be pulled by horse to…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"“Once there was enough ice for the horses then you would cut holes and set up the loading platform and wait for it to freeze in solid."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"A horse had gotten trapped inside a compartment made by scattered debris that was barely bigger than it's stable! After " A little boy named…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… and were usually pulled by 8 to 10 teams of horses or oxen. Granite the from the Stinchfield and Longfellow quarries on Lithgow Hill (known today…"

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… entries record the many times she fell from her horse, sometimes seriously injuring herself in her efforts to reach a patient in distress."

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"A horse was trapped in the stable but later rescued. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library Half of the Cotton Mill roof was…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The ice was cut by hand. After the snow was scraped from the area, the ice was plowed out. The ice plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a…"