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Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life
"Farm Life Myron Gartley Farm, Presque Isle, 1976Presque Isle Historical Society King Farm, Presque Isle, ca."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History
"By the summer of 2000, the Skyline Farm organization and the Sowles family arranged a purchase with a conservation easement through the Royal River…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Fred Urquhart Farm, Presque Isle
"Fred Urquhart Farm, Presque Isle Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Description International Fertilizers…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Stairs-Beckwith Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1950
"These farm buildings were located on Academy Street in Presque Isle about a mile from Main Street. View additional information about this item on…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - King Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1920
"The King family later sold the farm and bought a farm nearby on the Easton Road. The sprayer is hauled by two horses, which means that the pump was…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2
"While his father went to one farm, he and his brothers Dale, Keith, and Philip would go to another one. They could get two farms inspected at once."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2
"Dairy Farms Memories Dairy cattle, Woodland, ca. 1922Nylander Museum Text by Rachel, a student at Presque Isle Middle School Images by Maine…"
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Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm
"Poor Farm City "Poor" Farm, Poor Farm Road, Hallowell, 1879Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner In a Mayor's Address from…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms
"Fox farms were a very large business. Fox farms were like having a farm with all kinds of animals on it."
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Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area
"Many small farms are gone and that is the sad story indeed. Organic farming is becoming very popular in Maine and the organization MOFCA is thriving…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming
"Community members raised their own farm animals. Farm animals were needed to do the heavy work such as plowing and also as transport of people from…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry
"The season lasted a mere three weeks. Franklin Farm Products Cooperative, established in 1929 was the last cannery to disappear from Farmington’s…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Exhibits
"… in Maine's Coastal Counties Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth Skyline Farm Making and Preserving History"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4
"… X Farming Diversity Unlike large single-crop farms of the west, our local farms produced a variety of products for both farm use and sale to…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture
"This program was created by the U.S. Dept. of Labor and Dept. of Agriculture. “Women will go to farms where farmers are willing and ready to use…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's Agricultural Pursuits
"… Agricultural Pursuits In the early 1800’s, as farms became more established, crops in Farmington expanded to include clover for cattle feed, flax…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad
"… of horses and oxen.” (Teams were not only on farms but were working in the woods logging). Lowell’s bought oats and corn in lots of five or six…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"Although the large farms are few, several smaller farms are producing foods locally. The Farmington community still supports its agricultural…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair
"Dairy, sugar and bread products, apples, pears, farming tools, carriages and harnesses. Also, quilts and spreads, carpets, rugs and plants, fancy…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"Brook trout X Trout Farming Trout farming was established in Cumberland around 1902 when William H."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13
"Harvesting Potatoes MECHANIZED FARMS The photograph on page 10 that shows two young men loading a potato truck was taken on the Myron Gartley Farm…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"The Marston-Lawrence farm X Riverside Farm The Marston-Lawrence homestead still stands on North Road in North Yarmouth overlooking a small oxbow…"
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"Betsey died first, at the age of ninety, in 1839. In 1840 Stephen sold his farm and moved into Farmington Village with two of his daughters on Anson…"