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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"… Potatoes LOTS OF HORSE POWER IS NEEDED X Mechanical diggers were needed to provide a more efficient way of removing potatoes from the ground."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945

"… II Presque Isle Air Terminal Building on outer Mechanic Street bordering Presque Isle Army Air Field."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"The tractor powers the mechanical parts of this digger through a drive on the back of the tractor that is connected to the digger."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 3, pages 38-56

"… Topics and personalities include: 1848 Bangor Mechanics Festival Tribute to Col. Daniel Chaplin 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Thurston & Metcalf Nath…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ezekiel Hopkins house and grounds, Hampden, 1840

"… beast where every convenience both natural and mechanical were combined." When he was a teenager, Martin worked for Hopkins on his farm and in his…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… had a gasoline engine mounted on it to power the mechanical parts. This made the digger easier for the horses to pull."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"The Rumford Mechanics Institute, the largest building constructed by Chisholm on the business island, was Chisholm’s answer to a YMCA for the Town of…"

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

"Harvesting Potatoes MECHANIZED FARMS The photograph on page 10 that shows two young men loading a potato truck was taken on the Myron Gartley Farm…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Civil War

"… a group reflection on the project, and grammar/mechanics. The essential questions that students focused on were attaining the skills to answer the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"… populations, and there was a carpenter and a few mechanics among the group also. Forest resources were utilized right away, and "pine boards and…"

Ellsworth Public Library

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

"… he wrote, "During this summer I became a quite a mechanic I made me a cart with hub and spoke wheels and the idea started from an instance of a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century

"As the wife of master mechanic Charles Scrimgeour, who helped with the electrification of Bates Manufacturing Company mills, Mrs."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"Chester’s mechanical and creative ability likely came through his father’s family. Zina was a bridge builder, a wagon & carriage builder and a…"

Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell

"… for people who owned cars or some motorized, old, mechanical machine. Most contests were between teams of firemen."

Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 2 of 2

"… kids were extremely comfortable with the mechanics of digitizing and scanning and helped out tremendously."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"His attendance to his duties was verified by punching a “time clock” mechanism at periodic locations along the dam’s perimeter."

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"Taylor Bradstreet started in the automotive field on March 20, 1925, as a mechanic. A year and a half later he became a service manager of the Casino…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"Rumford Mechanics Institute of Rumford, ca. 1911Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Fun and recreational needs of the town were also…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"… engine worked as a heat engine that performed mechanical work using steam as the working fluid. To use the water, they piped it from a dam into a…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… and his numerous industrious activities, several mechanics, laborers, farmers and businessmen were attracted from throughout New England with hopes…"

Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades

"… work, and was a Ford dealer from 1910 to 1928 on Mechanic Street. Will Brown was one of the first drivers of a Model T in the area."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"He was a master mechanic who built his own airplane, and he also worked for a Mr. Jones who owned an airplane hanger in Old Orchard Beach."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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