Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Train Station, Presque Isle, ca. 1908

"… Description Photograph shows railroad workers and clerks in a Bangor and Aroostook Railroad station."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"He was a very hard worker, demanding of himself and others, yet was concerned for the welfare of others, such as in adequate housing and education."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Mr. Park was an active temperance worker and an able correspondent of the local papers. An excerpt from his diary reads: I packed my goods, loaded…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Aroostook Valley Railroad (an electric railroad that connected residents to nearby towns), the Northern Maine…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Knight returned to his land with some workers, or two of his sons, burned some of the felled trees in preparation of a garden, and used others to…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"… they provide employment for the residents, but workers came from all the surrounding towns. Lumbermen from miles around worked to provide the raw…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Railroad Company operated twelve miles of track between Bangor and Old Town beginning in 1836."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for months clearing acres of heavily forested land to finally send the logs down the Penobscot River…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"If the workers had to use the bathroom, they would put barrels around themselves. They would have to go quickly because the digger man would start…"

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

"… Strathglass Park, a group of brick homes for the workers of the area. The Rumford Falls Realty (an outgrowth of the Rumford Falls Power Company)…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… July when the rails of the Biddeford and Saco Railroad Company were finally connected to those of the Portland Railroad Company, connecting South…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… rain caused the soil to give way and the exposed workers abandoned their effort under fire from the men in the garrison."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"Workers from Europe, especially Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, England, came to build the dams, canals, brick structures, and other…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… organization was to support English immigrant worker integration into the Western Maine community."

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

"Workers make sure the potatoes and rocks are separated. A conveyors dumps the potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more…"

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

"… from the rows by hand, although there were some workers with hand diggers who could keep up with the early mechanical diggers."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… prosperity of these times not only brought more workers to the shipyards of Bath, but also created a bustling and diverse downtown that served as…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"Del retired in March 2005. He was a skilled worker and loved his job. He stills likes forestry and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood."

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

"… a break to the potato pickers and other field workers. Worn lags would have to be replaced with new ones."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… Rumford Area Historical Society The many workers from Europe and Canada brought with them their Catholic heritages."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… complexes housed many of the less well-paid workers of the mills. According to a Rumford Falls Times article of August 4, 1923 by a Mr."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"31, 1999, affecting about 200 workers and resulting in a $25 million charge to the company, mostly in the second quarter, to cover asset write-offs…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"Workers there would unload the full barrels and put the empty barrels (empties) back onto the truck."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"Also by the railroad there were six more homes. Many of the houses on Red Row were two story houses. Most had an attic and some even had a basement."