Maine Memory Network

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…"

Early Maine Photography - War

"Private Charles H. Ring, an eighteen year old carriage trimmer from Newport, enlisted as a musician in Company E of the Sixteenth Maine Regiment on…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"… bread products, apples, pears, farming tools, carriages and harnesses. Also, quilts and spreads, carpets, rugs and plants, fancy work, taxidermy."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"Travel around the island was by foot, carriage, or animal so it was convenient to have these supplies nearby."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… community bustled with leisure activities such as carriage rides, day hikes, evening lectures, small gatherings for tea and family celebrations…"

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 - 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…"

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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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…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"members who rode in carriages. The G.A.R., Grand Army of the Republican, was a fraternal organization of union Civil War veterans."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

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

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

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

Acadia National Park

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Cumberland Historical Society

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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"The carriage, which moved the lumber along the saw, was short and referred to by locals as a "snap-dragon." Around 1906 Hollis bought a steam engine…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… Rhode Island, purchased the property and added a carriage house, a hen house with cupola, and elaborate wooden fencing in an effort to create a…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… difficult and required a fourteen-mile coach or carriage drive over rough roads to get from the train depot in Ellsworth to Blue Hill."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"Sesquicentennial - Baby Carriage ParadeGuilford Historical Society Some other events were oxen pulling, barbeque, canoe races, log chopping contest…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… for someone on foot, 31 cents for a horse and carriage, and 3 cents apiece for sheep or pigs. Shipbuilding had started, of course, with the first…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… the island was by water or rickety “buckboard” carriages on rough, bumpy, steep buckboard roads. Village life centered around Somesville and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… work on building the islands network of carriage roads. He saw in JDR, Jr., a kindred spirit who not only loved the natural, wild parts of the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… Point where they might be met by horse-drawn carriages to take them up Tenney Hill to George Stover's new Blue Hill Inn on what is now South…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel

"It had a stable for travelers, horses, and carriages. In the 1900s, two new stories of wood and two new stories of bricks were constructed to house…"