Maine Memory Network

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

"Also, quilts and spreads, carpets, rugs and plants, fancy work, taxidermy. The fair has been held every year since 1840 at the fair grounds on High…"

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…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"Moor Blacksmith Judkins & Lucke “ & Carriage Works Ward Spooner Mill Proprietor E.S. Hopkins Cong. Clergyman A.P. Allen Physicians & Surgeons J.P."

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 Historical Society

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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…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"We would watch the milkman come with a horse and carriage. It wasn’t very sanitary I don’t believe. Are there any similarities between now and then…"

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."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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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…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… and businesses were suited for people on foot, carriage, or railroad. Typical of this era, a railroad and hotel built in 1816 named the Commercial…"

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…"

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…"

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…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… taken to their destinations on horseback or by carriage. Drivers, the equivalent of today's taxi drivers, were expected to keep late hours and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… “a very swank establishment…as he catered to the carriage trade. How deliciously the place smelled of freshly ground coffee and of course nothing…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Horse-drawn carriages and wagons were fundamental to our farms; they were an essential mode of transportation and would remain so into the early…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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