Maine Memory Network

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

"… by the mile, Franklin rode the post roads in his carriage with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3)…"

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

"… towns outside of Portland, yet be able to work or shop in the city. The trolleys also allowed residents to visit area amusement parks and beaches…"

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

"… in Maine.(3) McCann Fire Truck Manufacturing Shop, ca. 1949Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Fire Trucks From 1931 to the mid-1950s…"

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

"New York: Penguin Books, 2004. York Deeds. Vol. II, 114. Centervale Farm - Business and Retail Center X Shops at Bessey Square X"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… for more structures, trucks, a machine repair shop, employees and clam draggers. The factory was successful and ultimately employed thousands of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"The leather, carriages and corn stored within were destroyed, amounting to a loss of about $9,000. It was suspected a discharged convict caused the…"

Moosehead Historical Society

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Monmouth Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Asa Griffin, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"… Description Asa Griffin is shown with a horse and carriage in front of the Masonic Hall in Lincoln in the early 1900s."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"A carriage maker is a person that makes carriages. A carriage is a four-wheeled car that is pulled by two or more horses."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 1, pages 000-26

"… George Snow Ideal homestead "Self-propelling road carriage" Council Tree, Charleston, S.C. Billy Emerson Moses Woodman Israel B. Norcross O."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"He was being rushed home by horse and carriage but sadly died before they reached the house. Mr. Arnold, one of Haley's employees, had just walked…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Eight years later in August, 1861, the Mount Washington Carriage Road Company opened the road to the top."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… the first electric street railroad, a horseless carriage, and others. He speculated in the second scrapbook about things he might live to see."

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Palmer moved to Ohio, to pursue the wagon and carriage business, until his death in July of 1915. Born in Bath in 1836 to Asa Palmer and Maria…"

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

"… Library Percy Hill had a jewelry and optical shop and his wife millinery shop next door. The Pastime Theater opened in 1913, near the corners of…"

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

"Morse Cabinet Maker W. Sylvester Carriage Maker A.L. Watson “ “ H. Clark Tanner & Currier Z.F. Moor Blacksmith Judkins & Lucke “ & Carriage Works…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… and businesses were suited for people on foot, carriage, or railroad. Typical of this era, a railroad and hotel built in 1816 named the Commercial…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… such as are in general use for boy and baby carriages now I made a perfect cart with stake rings side boards Snibells to lip up and all the…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"A carriage-making concern was a mainstay of the local economy for all of the 19th century. When the granite industry moved into full production…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"We would watch the milkman come with a horse and carriage. It wasn’t very sanitary I don’t believe. Are there any similarities between now and then…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… resulting first in ferries carrying wagons and carriages and later in ferries carrying trains as the railroad extended to the east."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

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