Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"By dint of hard labor and peeseverance we after much trouble arrived at Mann Hill house. Ayers stopped and helped me unload. Set up stove etc."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… was named by the fishermen who, after weeklong labors, rested in its sheltered waters on Sundays."

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

"… could be seen in the island's economy, labor force, appearance, and even through the very livelihoods of those who live here year-round."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… please to observe clearly, that your personal labor is not so much my object, as that you should see that others in my employ work faithfully."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… farmer and needed to return to the hard labor of logging. The next winter he went with a crew of men to work at a location twelve miles into the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Canadians from Quebec and the Maritimes came to labor in them. Google Maps tells us that the distance between Byron and Buckfield—respectively the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… there were 115 miners in town, not counting the laborers and teamsters employed by the mines. In early 1880 there were 29 mining companies in Blue…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… fair, it was held on the Saturday following Labor Day and featured livestock judging, horse and oxen pulling, and an assortment of carnival rides…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… particularly from foreign countries where labor wages were much cheaper, netting has become much less remunerative for the hard work involved."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… fair, it was held on the Saturday following Labor Day and featured livestock judging, horse and oxen pulling, and an assortment of carnival rides…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"In 1860 he was a laborer on the farm of Joshua Allen in Walpole, MA. He enlisted from Cambridgeport, MA, in Company D, 74th New York Infantry on July…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Two thousand civilians labored around the clock during that spring to build the new Army cantonment which became known as Dow Field."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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