Maine Memory Network

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

"Tabor was named after John Tabor of Houlton who built the wagon in the late 1800s Loading Barrels by Hand, Presque Isle, 1950Presque Isle…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3) At each mile a stake was driven into the ground and a crew…"

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

"Fall and spring it traveled on wheels and in the winter on runners.The number of school children riding school buses in Scarborough has risen…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"The wooden wheels were primarily for carriages or wagons. A carriage maker is a person that makes carriages."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"Zina was a bridge builder, a wagon & carriage builder and a businessman in the Corn Canning Industry."

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

"Heaters were essential for four wheeled wagons and carriages whose wheels could not easily make perpendicular turns."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"When they had to leave a wagon or a gun, they either burnt or cut the wheels to pieces and threw the ammunition into a mudpuddle."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… items got to market by a horse drawn tote wagon. There were few paying jobs and that meant little money available for families to purchase items…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… grist mill, salt box factory, starch factory, wagon shop, novelty mill, carding factory, dye house, fulling mill, clover mill, and shovel handle…"