Keywords: Old farms
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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…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2
"One was as a dairy farm inspector while my grandpa was in high school. Albert was old enough to help his father do the inspections once a month."
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Old Berwick Historical Society
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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms
"Fox farms were a very large business. Fox farms were like having a farm with all kinds of animals on it."
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Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting
"… busy harbor and prosperous village, surrounded by farms at harvest time. Figuratively – in its depiction of an Edenic place made secure for the…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair
"Dairy, sugar and bread products, apples, pears, farming tools, carriages and harnesses. Also, quilts and spreads, carpets, rugs and plants, fancy…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"Brook trout X Trout Farming Trout farming was established in Cumberland around 1902 when William H."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)
"Later, around 1883, the barn and shed were demolished and the Old House was swung around and relocated westward to make room for the first Asticou…"
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"Betsey died first, at the age of ninety, in 1839. In 1840 Stephen sold his farm and moved into Farmington Village with two of his daughters on Anson…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"Like the Old House, the Old Ell saw more than one move. Its first move was just to the east of the present day Sand Garden feature in the Asticou…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers
"Alexander Hillman, an ambitious man, owned a farm near the town limits toward Industry and was reputed to have had one of the largest farms in town."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4
"… fluid arrangement for the Eastern Abenaki, who farmed the fertile plains of the Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers, and spread out along lands west…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links
"… here to see the images pertaining to Skyline Farm. Here are some materials on the history of the towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"By 1900, children who lived on farms might be boarded at the expense of the town, or they were provided transportation."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"Skyline Farm looks much the same today as it did more than a century ago, and its approach on a dirt road reminds us of what our old roads once…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3
"One time the potato service bought about 25 farm trucks at once and they were all red and white. Those trucks cost about $1,700 each so we made a lot…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3
"Growing up on a farm he had his own pony named Scout that he broke himself. He would chase his siblings around the pastures."
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"… and very capably, tackled many tasks at home of farming, child rearing, cooking, and caring for the sick, elderly, and dead."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"… collections of plowed fields on the George Sawyer farm in Ashland. By the Late Archaic Period (6,500 – 3, 400 years ago) many artifacts and some…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"His mother then decided to lease out the farm for which Arthur was happy as he did not enjoy farming. Arthur’s first job was at the age of 14."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959
"The tree, estimated to be over 100 years old, had a diameter at the base of 22 inches with a branch spread of approximately twenty-eight feet."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase
"… published when she was between 12 and 15 years old, under the pen name "Florence Percy". In 1855, using her pen name, she published her first book…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood
"… did indeed patent Ear Muffs when he was 15 years old. And before too many years passed, Chester was producing earmuffs in a factory in West…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps
"With these files, you can look at an old map of Farmington overlayed on top of the current satellite image of the town in Google Earth and compare…"