Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… that driving rains had caused heavy property and crop damage and that the rail line had been cut: Lincoln Flood, 1947 from July 1, 1947 edition of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"Desert Island and the outlying crops of lands. Families like the Stanleys, the Gilleys, and even the first settlers of the Cranberry Islands, the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… had money coming in to pay for their house, their crops, and feeding their animals. Ben also had sheep and cattle."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… were lobsters that Native-Americans used them for crop fertilizer and fish bait, as well as food for themselves; early settlers considered lobsters…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… food, a medium of exchange and fertilizer for crops. Evidence of these earlier people can be found in a river of the marsh at low tide where there…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… build ships in Yarmouth’s harbor; farms produced crops that were sold in the village and village merchants sold goods to the rural farmers."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… their lives in peace at last, farming animals and crops and raising their children. Back in the day, the Fowlers had as many as 30 cattle and 9…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… entrepreneurial spirit! Apples were viewed as the crop that would allow East Dixfield farmers to thrive and many farmers planted apple trees."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… a pig house and a space for manure and root crop storage. There was a separate icehouse for cooling milk and a cistern."

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

"Blueberries were always a commercial crop, some hand picked by local residents and shipped out of state."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four vessels on the stocks building at one time, employing…"

Acadian Archives

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

"… into a working farm producing small grain crops which helped support Thomas, his wife Phoebe, and their eleven children."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… allowing land to be cleared for the planting of crops and the building of a homestead. Spruce logs were mortised together for cabin construction…"