Keywords: Filling
- Historical Items (222)
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Site Pages
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13
"Most pickers could fill 20 to 40 barrels per day. Conditions such as a rocky or weedy field or digger break downs could hinder the amount of barrels…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Playing at the pond
"… down for the winter it was always allowed to fill with rainwater. This water froze over to create a popular skating destination for islanders."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13
"… row by the digger, the potato picker would first fill a basket such as the one pictured here. The potatoes would be picked from a section of the…"
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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem
"… by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence. Ice gripped the land with a hard hand as it softened neighbors’ hearts."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato import protest, Presque Isle, 1982
"… a group of Aroostook County potato farmers filled the parking lot of the Presque Isle Agricultural Center on December 16, 1982."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Draining the quarry
"… the quarrying season was over each year, the rain filled up the pit and iced over in the winter to make a popular skating pond."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Commercial article on World's Fair contest
"The contest required participants to fill out "coupons" from the paper and mail or deliver them with their votes for the teacher, clerk, or wage…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Gate no 2 design, Bangor, 1867
"… The center of each side of the gate would be "filled with small round cedar crooks and straight poles as convenience may occur and hung on iron…"
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons
"But filled inside this seemingly ordinary bag- treasures. Shoe boxes and small pouches filled with various buttons were crammed into the shopping bag."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13
"… track of the number of barrels the potato picker filled. Most potato barrel trucks had a ticket box like this on the back."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4
"… drain wet, mosquito-breeding areas; pannes were filled; and tide gates (sluiceways) were constructed to prevent tides from flooding areas of the…"
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Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions
"Impressive homes and a stellar hotel fill the city. In the 1960s an urban renewal proposal and a highway construction plan threatened to demolish…"
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Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology
"… carry the leather buckets to the Kennebec River, fill them with water, and lug them back up to the burning house to douse the fire."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2
"… mother, Sadie, usually had a tub, which she filled with water from a lake, stream, well, or river."
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"Please visit our Museum filled with historic artifacts of the Town of Guilford. We meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month March through November."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Pendleton & Ross stand, Bangor, 1864
"… largest stores in the city built of wood and were filled with dry goods groceries Rum hard ware fish salt &c." He noted that in November 1865, the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 3 of 3
"… collection—the attached densely gathered skirt would have filled out into the fashionable dome shape. Skirt circumferences expanded in the 1850s."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5
"… Often the team was harnessed and the wagon filled for a trip to White Cap in neighboring Rumford."
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Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place ~ Once Again
"… out, I say you have a dear old town left to you, filled to the brim with memories so varied, so overwhelming, that I consider it a privilege to…"
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Historic Hallowell - Maine Industrial School for Girls
"… outside the institution and the thirty remaining filled the school to its full capacity. --History - Stevens School, 1875 - 1920, Compiled by…"
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Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell
"… all the fire uniforms fastest or what team could fill the tub first while only using buckets. New England musters were first organized in the…"
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"… the number of Red Cross shelters activated and filled was the most in Maine history. Over all, the Red Cross saved or helped over a quarter of…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun
"… Quarry Pond in Minturn which was created by the filling in of water when the quarry stopped functioning."