Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"Poor Farm City "Poor" Farm, Poor Farm Road, Hallowell, 1879Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner In a Mayor's Address from…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… the local town farm was established, giving the poor a place to reside, work the land and contribute to their own upkeep."

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…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Exhibits

"… Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties Representative Industries of Cumberland…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… X Farming Diversity Unlike large single-crop farms of the west, our local farms produced a variety of products for both farm use and sale to…"

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."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"The Marston-Lawrence farm X Riverside Farm The Marston-Lawrence homestead still stands on North Road in North Yarmouth overlooking a small oxbow…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 4 of 4

"The Historical Societies, as well as Skyline Farm and Carriage Museum, provide ties to the past, inviting and encouraging residents to remember their…"

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…"

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…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… and fur traders were supplanted by more stable farming settlements. The abundance of timber, good harbors and a demand for sailing vessels resulted…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… Society, Cumberland Historical Society, Skyline Farm and the towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… were used to build ships in Yarmouth’s harbor; farms produced crops that were sold in the village and village merchants sold goods to the rural…"

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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Carry a spade to dig a grave for the poor thing.” This counsel was to prove false as the infant, Hannah, lived to the age of 79."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Jonathan Poor's murals in Farmington, ca. 1950Farmington Historical Society F. G. Butler’s History of Farmington briefly mentions Jonathan Russ."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… beans, and squash (the “three sisters”) were poorly adapted to the short, cool growing seasons and people retained a food foraging/ hunting and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… overproduction, lack of supplemental income in poor years, fluctuations in yields and prices, debt, and foreclosure."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland Records of The Second social Library In North Yarmouth, 1793Prince Memorial Library…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Welcome

"Welcome X Welcome to Cumberland and North Yarmouth’s website – we’re glad you found us! Ancient North Yarmouth, the original 1680 plantation in…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution Site of library before constructionPrince Memorial Library Annie L."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Gould felt that the mill was in poor shape and needed quite a few repairs and improvements. In light of these factors, he rejected Johnson’s proposal."

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

"Blake and Linscott. Young C. is a poor man and has been in the States but a few weeks; has a wife and five children in Canada to whom he was…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Unitarian Church, Presque Isle, 1895

"… Church was erected in 1886 and because of poor attendance was closed in 1932. The Masonic Temple purchased the property in the late 1930s, and the…"