Maine Memory Network

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

"… bodies had a unique style with a box over the wheels to give clearance and with stakes around the outside that allowed a rope or a chain to hold…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"The turbine turned gears, wheels, and belts that powered the mill machinery. Whiting was made from finely powdered chalk."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"He made a wood splitter powered by a water wheel, and he cut cucumbers slices with it. When he was older, he and his brother, Samuel, worked together…"

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…"

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

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

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…"

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."

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."

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."