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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"Harvesting Potatoes DIGGER LAGS SIFT OUT THE DIRT Picking potatoes, Presque Isle, 1939Presque Isle Historical Society Lags on a Digger X…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"Dairy Farms Memories Dairy cattle, Woodland, ca. 1922Nylander Museum Text by Rachel, a student at Presque Isle Middle School Images by Maine…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"Don't pick any rotten potatoes. 9. Don't throw potatoes. 10, You're setting your barrels in the wrong row, I can't get the truck through."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"Harvesting Potatoes TRACTOR POWER Potato harvester, Mapleton, ca. 1940Presque Isle Historical Society Two row potato digger, ca."

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

"… demonstration of opposition to imported Canadian potatoes, a group of Aroostook County potato farmers filled the parking lot of the Presque Isle…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Governor's Potato Plot, Presque Isle, 1959

"Governor's Potato Plot, Presque Isle, 1959 Contributed by Presque Isle Historical Society Description In celebration of the centennial of…"

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"Poor Farm City "Poor" Farm, Poor Farm Road, Hallowell, 1879Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner In a Mayor's Address from…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"One time the potato service bought about 25 farm trucks at once and they were all red and white. Those trucks cost about $1,700 each so we made a lot…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"Jeremiah would usually make meatloaf or baked potatoes. His favorite meal was his brother’s scrambled hamburger and home-made French fries."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"The potato became so important that in 1913 Thomas Phair and other leading Presque Isle businessmen convinced the state legislature to fund the…"

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

"While a promising concept, scheduling problems arose when both potatoes and sugar beets needed to be harvested at the same time."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"With mechanization of logging and potato farming, the tribe’s economic role disappeared. The people were left to fend for themselves without any…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"One of his efforts paid off when he was instrumental in obtaining an increase on the tariff on Canadian potatoes entering the United States."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Threshing peas, ca. 1955

"… For many years peas were grown in rotation with potatoes as an alternative crop to help replenish nutrients to the soil."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

"Potato traffic hit an all-time high in 1930. The railroad hauled 899,300 tons of potatoes. Passenger service was discontinued in 1961 because of…"

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

"My mother and father did have sweet potatoes, but they were the size of a twelve year-old’s fist. It was normal to eat only lunch and dinner in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"… her brothers and sisters were old enough to pick potatoes, her mother and father would make her clothes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 4 of 4

"… Historical Society To get money, she picked potatoes during harvest, and also she babysat. She babysat the town manager’s three boys next door."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"… Aroostook Railroad refrigerator cars for shipping potatoes. Cement blocks were manufactured in the small building on the left."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Phair House, the Bellstead and the Social Security Building

"… known as the “Starch King” because he was in the potato starch business. He was born in New York in 1850."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"In home economics, they would help with the cooking during spare time, doing things such as peeling potatoes."

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

"When she was young they had hamburgers, hotdogs, and soups. Now there is pizza and baked potatoes. Her favorite fair food would be a hotdog."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"… go to work at four in the morning for the dairy farm. I would get done at eleven and work for Carroll’s until five at night."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"… and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood. He enjoys gardening and has his own Christmas tree farm where he grows 700 trees a year."