Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… by the mile, Franklin rode the post roads in his carriage with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3)…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Canadian tourists no longer had to endure long carriage trips to visit Scarborough beaches. By the 1870s, sixty-five trains a day brought…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"… canoe tours as well as canoe rentals, a nature trail and exhibits. There are also an aquarium, mounted birds and animals, and interactive exhibits."

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

"Sylvester, Herbert Milton. The Sokoki Trail. Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, 1907. Ware, Moses Weld. Beacon Light in the History of Prouts Neck."

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

"… Historical Society Collection: Aviation 2.See note 1 above. 3.http://www.scarborough.me.us/commserv/trails/history.html 4.Author’s recollection"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… http://www.scarborough.me.us/commserv/trails/history.html Libbey, Dorothy Shaw. Scarborough Becomes a Town."

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

"… Trust and the Friends of the Scarborough Marsh, formed to safeguard the town's open space, marshland and nature trails for future generations."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"… since about 1866 when Daniel Brewer create a carriage trail to the top and built a hotel. Clerque chose a cog railway, like the one used on Mount…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… Farm into a community resource as a living carriage museum with an antique carriage and sleigh collection, while also preserving the farm’s open…"

Skyline Farm

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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…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"The business had ramps that were used to haul vehicles between the ground level and second floor. A sign advertised Chase as a "Manufacturer of…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Carriages, wagons, buckboards, sleighs, and four-runner sleds were driven by one or two horses. Dark Harbor Wharf, Islesboro, 1917Islesboro…"