Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"Fall and spring it traveled on wheels and in the winter on runners.The number of school children riding school buses in Scarborough has risen…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3) At each mile a stake was driven into the ground and a crew…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"Mill wheel bearing, Saco, ca. 1840McArthur Public Library The first sawmill was built around 1853, and before the coming of Samuel Batchelder and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"The wheel of the cart ended up in a pot hole, however, and the natives were exposed to the settlers' fire. Six natives were killed and 15 wounded."

Historic Hallowell - The "World of Mirth" Carnival in Hallowell

"The spectacle of people on fire included their diving into a small barrel of water from high up! It was a family carnival but had some mature…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"It had two-foot high wooden wheels with a half-inch strip of iron around them and a fifty foot leather hose."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"Superintendent Frank Kent placed the wheels in motion, and in 1948 Piscataquis Community High School was formed."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… of the area.” With his oft-present measuring wheel Avery explored the route. Avery and companions on Hunt Trail X Steve Clark, past president…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"Early entertainment included the Ferris Wheel, which is still popular, and an assortment of rides ranging from the sedate (animals rides) to the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… equipment they had was one linen hose, one two-wheeled hose reel that they could use in the summer, and a sled they could use in the winter."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Heaters were essential for four wheeled wagons and carriages whose wheels could not easily make perpendicular turns."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… the Larchmont “as one of the finest side-wheel steamers of her day, well over 250 feet long with 37 feet of beam."

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

"… equipment which consisted of linen hose, a two wheeled hose reel, and a sled for winter use. The pay for firemen was either $3 per year or their…"

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

"A new water wheel with metal penstock and housing was installed which was rated for 150 horse power."

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

"… wood turning plant, equipping it with a new water wheel to power the mill. Lester Henderson was influential in business and town government."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"On the other side: cracker barrels, cheese wheels, beans, sugar, spices, slabs of salt fish, molasses barrels and the pot belly stove."

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

"No sooner had the engine wheels made their first revolution on the new depot grounds, than some five hundred voices sent up their shouts of welcome."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… on work tables, and in back the racks used to wheel them from the oven room, as in Smillie’s time."