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L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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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…"

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."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"of Agriculture. “Women will go to farms where farmers are willing and ready to use their labor.” Calls from the government came: • “Plant an Acre” •…"

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…"

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…"

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 - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"By 1900, children who lived on farms might be boarded at the expense of the town, or they were provided transportation."

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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Hotel Willows, Farmington, ca. 1910

"… for autos, a good livery, and also that a coach will meet all trains coming to Farmington. View additional information about this item on the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… freight upon their new grounds, a good roadway will have been completed and the public will be put to no inconvenience or discomfort for want of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… they might be very happy, but sincerely hope they will not receive all their “good things in life”. The while village are paying their respects to…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"They were good at good - natured bantering with the pickers Typical suggestions, criticisms, and encouragements that are given to potato pickers are…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"… to adjust the front of the digger so that it will cut into the row at the right height. Later tractors had levers powered by a hydraulic pump that…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"Sources: Clark, Janice. "Lights Go out for Good in Theater." Bangor Daily News 4 Jan. 1994. McCarty, Kathy."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… Iron Horse from Tennessee Took our hearts, given willingly. He worked so hard for his claim to fame With John R. Willard at his rein."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Cummings. The doctor built this island farm in 1856. The previous year Solomon Hanscomb and his two sons discovered a jug filled with fifty-two…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"In 1988, Mariculture Products started a salmon farm that was obtained and renamed "Island Aquaculture" by a local group in 1993."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… the Odd Fellows, the Fernwood Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Willing Workers. Bridge Clubs were also popular."

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"They attended local schools in Appleton, but Richardson Johnson had to give up school early to make a living by farming and later manufacturing shoes."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"He made the first house, farm, and store in Lincoln in 1824. They were all the same building. While he was in Enfield, his fifth son, Asa, drowned in…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The gypsum and grinding stones to supply the mills were among the goods smuggled into the country from Nova Scotia."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"It will probably never be like it was in the 1860s. In the late 30s and 40s, there was a drug store, filling station, a garage and 3 grocery stores…"