Maine Memory Network

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

"The teacher rolled a large, bulky projector on a cart into the classroom. The movies were reel-to-reel and usually featured newsreel type…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"Some time after Portland became electrified in the 1880s, the horse cars were converted to electrics or “trolleys.” By the early 1900s, electricity…"

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…"

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

"… were cleared from the paths to allow passage for horses. As the settlements grew, attention was given to roads and ferries."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Once cut, horses and oxen, shod in bog shoes, hauled the harvested hay to staddles. To increase acreage yields, large-scale diking was undertaken."

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 - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… to improve in the 1930s, farmers would keep a horse and wagon as backup. Aviation fever came to Scarborough in 1926 when Chester Jordan and…"

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…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"1970Lubec Landmarks Wheeled herring cart: Left under cover when McCurdy’s closed was this cart, now on exhibit in the Skinning/Packing Shed."

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

"… cut from the quarry is raised to be placed on a cart or wagon for transportation. The quarry worker gives scale to the granite slab."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"In 1860 the folks on Severy Hill built a huge cart body and put it on four cart-wheels with 12 yoke of oxen, with all the people they could pile on…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"Draining and drying the herring on carts Frank Van Riper, photo X Step five: Inside the smokehouse The actual smoking operations were complex…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… the dust of the race track where the sprinkling cart had moistened it; and they could smell hamburgers frying and see balloons aloft."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"The Hillman Family Mary Pettengill Hillman carte de visite, ca. 1875Farmington Historical Society This family also came from Martha’s Vineyard…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… transportation to the Academy than horse and cart or walking. High school students had to pay to ride the local bus for some time before it became…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… gang was employed two or three hours next morning carting away the pile of broken boards, which had the appearance of having been underground a…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Gould traveled to his customers’ sites by cart and horse. The trip from Old Town to Fort Kent would take five weeks round trip."