Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… to produce lumber and shingles, shovel handles, grains from the grist mills, cheese and starch making facilities, and wool carding products."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… to the amount of livestock, it takes a lot of grain to feed working teams of horses and oxen.” (Teams were not only on farms but were working in…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"There were separate areas for grain and corn storage, a room for weaving and living quarters for hired hands; a milk room for butter making, a pig…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The bumper crops of hay and grain, which had been expected in the spring, were almost totally destroyed because of lack of care."