Maine Memory Network

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…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"Farms were becoming larger and more business-like. Harvesting was becoming more automated, using more expensive equipment."

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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… in town affairs, built large homes and farms, and were staunchly religious in their beliefs."

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

"The Historical Societies, as well as Skyline Farm and Carriage Museum, provide ties to the past, inviting and encouraging residents to remember their…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"They built a house and farmed land between the Royal (Wescustogo) and Cousins (Chusquissacke) Rivers, in what is now present-day Yarmouth and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"At one time there were “farming” courses offered; the school built a greenhouse and students learned the growth process."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13

"… on the right was taken on the Laurence Park farm in 1950. It shows two men loading barrels and one man setting the barrels in place on the truck…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"The abundance of timber, good harbors and a demand for sailing vessels resulted in the development of the shipbuilding industry, which reached its…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"View of Farmington from Titcomb Hill Farm, ca. 1885Farmington Historical Society Although no longer the bustling agricultural hub it was in the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… Society, Cumberland Historical Society, Skyline Farm and the towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth."

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

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

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"One time the potato service bought about 25 farm trucks at once and they were all red and white. Those trucks cost about $1,700 each so we made a lot…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"After I stopped working for the dairy farm, I worked cleaning cars and as a grease monkey. Also at night I would go down to Carroll’s and under-coat…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"This picture shows the Myron Gartley farm in 1976. <kids rolling on the barrels> As you can see, the younger pickers did not seem to mind a break."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"Growing up on a farm he had his own pony named Scout that he broke himself. He would chase his siblings around the pastures."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"The farm owner, Mr. Conant is walking across the field by two potato pickers. On the right, two men are loading a barrel by hand."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"… and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood. He enjoys gardening and has his own Christmas tree farm where he grows 700 trees a year."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"… Isle Historical Society Up until the 1970s when farms became more automated, farmers in Aroostook County used barrels to move potatoes from the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 12 of 13

"Like most tools on smaller family farms, barrel grapples were made locally, sometimes by the farmer himself."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… fund the purchase and operation of the Aroostook Farm which was a demonstration farm that experimented in the modern methods of potato production."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"With mechanization of logging and potato farming, the tribe’s economic role disappeared. The people were left to fend for themselves without any…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"His father passed away in May of 1872 when Arthur was only 15. His mother then decided to lease out the farm for which Arthur was happy as he did not…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… was a 70 foot white spruce from the Elmbrook farm of Miss Alice Kimball. The tree, estimated to be over 100 years old, had a diameter at the base…"