Maine Memory Network

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

"Growing up, my mother didn’t have a TV or toys. She grew up poor and moved to seek a new life in the United States of America."

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

"Residents of the City Farm worked the land and produced goods and produce sold in town to earn their place."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 14 of 17

"City Farm (Poor Farm), Biddeford, ca. 1910McArthur Public Library The high cost of soldier's bounties paid by the cities, had an overall negative…"

Historic Hallowell - John Calvin Stevens House

"This design has a combination of hip and gable roofs. Next steps in the stroll through Hallowell ~ The Poor Farm."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"… veteran Jacob Lunt wrote to the Overseers of the Poor, “Mr Hamor, sir, I want you to send me a little bread if possible, or I don’t know what to do."

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"He hoped to make enough money to buy a farm before he went home. He reported making fifteen hundred dollars in one year alone but there is no proof…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… in the early 1900s, but road conditions were so poor that use was essentially seasonal. Even as roads began to improve in the 1930s, farmers would…"

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

"… will see the impact, and if things are going poorly, the town will feel those effects as well. New Portland has some people who are remembered due…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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