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Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"All the families went. Dot said that now there are so many other things families can do that the Northern Maine Fair is not that important to them…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 2 of 3

"Northern Maine Fair Memories Presque Isle Historical Society Some buildings that Dot’s construction company built for the Northern Maine Fair…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad and Maine Public Service Company building, Presque Isle, 1921

"The building is still the offices for Maine Public Service Company. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 1 of 3

"Moving to Maine: There to Here Text by Alana, a student at Presque Isle Middle School Images from After moving to the United States for freedom and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"Moving to Maine: There to Here X Other than shoes, there were a lot of things that my parents did not have, like an indoor toilet."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"Moving to Maine: There to Here Tractor plowing snow, Lovell, ca. 1930Lovell Historical Society After they got over the “snow amazement”…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… Maine, the son of Osborn Trask, a prosperous farmer who taught his children to work diligently. Leonard learned his lessons well."

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

""We will stay until Christmas, if we have to," one grower said. The farmers planned to stay until their demands were met."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… viewed as the crop that would allow East Dixfield farmers to thrive and many farmers planted apple trees."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"Farmers and lumbermen not only used potatoes for food, they learned how to extracted starch from them for their own use to stiffen cloth for fancy…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Harlow Hill was named for Thomas Harlow, a farmer and the appointed keeper of the village pound for some time. Judge Charles W."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"During those years he engaged the most well-to-do farmer of the area, Waldo Pettengill of Rumford Center, as his business agent to procure the…"

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

"Farmers, traders and manufacturers saw their overseas markets disappear. Business plummeted and ships languished."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… of Tucker’s Farm were bustling with visiting farmers and their animals from throughout Hancock County."

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

"… until the 1970s when farms became more automated, farmers in Aroostook County used barrels to move potatoes from the field to storage."

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

"In the 1970s, potato farmers in Aroostook County grew sugar beets as a rotation crop with potatoes. While a promising concept, scheduling problems…"

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

"Like most small farmers in the area at that time, he did not stay in the potato business. Potato harvest, Presque Isle, 1982Maine Historical…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Fred Urquhart Farm, Presque Isle

"When selecting a fertilizer, the farmer must consider the condition of the soil, the expected growing conditions, and the needs of the crop."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - A Photo Essay of Hand Tools Found in the Swedish Colony

"… photo essay Tools were a necessary part of every farmer's and homeowner's life in the Swedish Colony."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 11 of 13

"… the transition stage from box over the rear wheels to a flat body. Former farmer Larry Park talks about loading barrels with a hydraulic hoist."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"Lapham, Press of the Maine Farmer, Boston, MA. 1890; Hugh J. Chisholm’s Magic Town, 1882-1912, by Peter McKenna (Master’s Thesis); The Oxford Story…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"This was accomplished by a local confidante, farmer Waldo Pettengill, while Hugh was working on the design of the manufacturing facilities and the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"… went to auctions in Exeter and Corinna and local farmers supplied them with beef. Lorin Herring turned over his half of Herring Brothers to his son…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"In that year, Ezekiel Holmes, editor of the Maine Farmer and later designated father of Maine agriculture, visited Aroostook County and the Presque…"