Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Allen Building

"… next to the Northeastland Hotel’s Sidewalk Café, and across the street from Stew’s Downtown Sight and Sound. Sources: Graves III, Richard A."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Pastimes

"These are the activities that bring people together, encompass the resources of the area and makes Presque Isle a unique place to live."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"Edwena also had potato fights with her brothers and other kids. They would hide behind barrels and throw potatoes at each other."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Significant Events

"… the nation it has played a significant part in the country's history and its impact has gone beyond the city's boundaries into the world arena."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Governor's Potato Plot, Presque Isle, 1959

"… Centennial Committee sponsored the cultivation and distribution of potatoes as a gift to the governors of the then just recently expanded 50 states…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"Many of these ice blocks eventually were used to cool Bangor and Aroostook Railroad refrigerator cars for shipping potatoes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Delivery of generators, Presque Isle, 1959

"… Society Description The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad delivers four diesel electric generators to Maine Public Service in Presque Isle…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Train Depot, Presque Isle, ca. 1955

"… Description The north bound Bangor and Aroostook diesel engine #41 stopped at the Presque Isle Depot."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Balloon liftoff memorial, Presque Isle, 1981

"The Maine Memory Network includes this and other UPI images for educational purposes only, and cannot broker its use."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"The apple began to “wither, and wither, and wither” until it was a little brown raisin. His uncle never did punish them because they didn’t actually…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891

"Participants went to St. Croix Lake then down the St. Croix Stream and the Aroostook River to Presque Isle, May 24-31, 1891."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The “digger man” was the person who drove the machine that would dig up the potatoes. The potato truck had full and empty barrels on the back of it."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Oak Hotel

"… in 1986, the Aroostook County Federal Savings and Loan Association purchased the land and built their own building on the site."

Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2

"She then took the soap and dropped it in the tub to let it dissolve and make suds. Then the real work began."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 1 of 4

"When she attended Ashland High School, her teachers taught history, geography, math, home economics, and algebra."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"The cars measured 56 ½ feet in length and were originally manufactured by Wason Manufacturing in 1912."

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Baptist Church

"… was purchased on the corner of what is now Second and State Streets and the building known today as State Street Baptist Church was built on the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle’s Historic Fire Station

"The 1912 building served as the municipal court (top floor), fire house (main floor) and jail (cellar)."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato import protest, Presque Isle, 1982

"The Maine Memory Network includes this and other UPI images for educational purposes only, and cannot broker its use."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Maxie Anderson, Presque Isle, 1981

"The Maine Memory Network includes this and other UPI images for educational purposes only, and cannot broker its use."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"At Houlton, too, and Caribou, and the town that’s called Presque Isle. The Grattan Tribe’s a game tribe, and speedy, too, as well."

Presque Isle: The Star City - St. John's Episcopal Church Building

"… Episcopal Church Building X Text by Dustin and Dustin, students at Presque Isle Middle School Edited by Presque Isle Historical Society X…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading sugar beets, Aroostook County, ca. 1975

"… beets being loaded from a bulk truck to a Bangor and Aroostook gondola car. In the 1970s, potato farmers in Aroostook County grew sugar beets as a…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945

"Northeast Airlines DC-3s (as redesignated C-47s) and Northeast Airlines air crews performed survey and rescue flights from Presque Isle from…"