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Island Falls Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Holiday Events

"Potato races, Swan's Island, ca. 1950Swan's Island Historical Society Swan Islander’s would gather in Swan’s Village to participate in 4th of July…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - First Baptist Church, Bangor, ca. 1850

"… in the journal that he went to the market to buy potatoes on July 9, 1864, and took a sheet of paper with him so he could sketch the church."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse

"… Marion Stinson recalls: "...we’d take a big potato and put it in a coffee can, you know how coffee used to come about that high in the cans? We’d…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… carameled apples to great French Fries from Maine potatoes to a lobster dinner. There is something for everyone."

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"… the past season 50 tons of hay, 175 bushels of potatoes 140 bushels of apples, 175 bushels oats and barley, quite an amount of corn, beans, &c…"

Acadian Archives

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"His potatoes and turnips had kept well and the settlers used the potatoes for seed that year. Other important facts are known about Stephen and his…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… Colony, and large amounts of wood products and potatoes were shipped off to new markets in the south."

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… Historical Society Local settlers cultivated potatoes and vegetable gardens, hunted game in nearby woods and lived on fish and clams from the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"Potatoes had given them a bigger profit when the times were getting hard. By 1879 over $25,000 worth of potatoes had come through Guilford."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… a mixture of egg whites and carbon from charred potatoes. The students and teachers wrote on the boards with chunks of chalk and erased with cloth…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"Shettleworth, Jr. Born on an Aroostook County potato farm in Merrill in 1914, Eaton Weatherbee Tarbell (1914-1992) graduated from Bangor High School…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"… farmers and they were selling wheat, corn and potatoes in markets as far away as Boston, New York and Philadelphia."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"They grew crops of potatoes, rye, beans and pumpkins on burned over land. Bears and raccoons ate their corn so that was not a successful crop."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"Unfortunately the Guilford Center School met an early demise as it became the first casualty of fire in 1825. North Guilford School House…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Settled in 1780, the pioneers planted corn, potatoes and turnips to get them through the first winter."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… milk, hulled corn, boiled wheat, and roasted potatoes. In September of 1806 Mrs. Robert Herring Jr."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"Potatoes were down from 45¢ to 15¢ a barrel. Timber was becoming scarce and many mills had to close down."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Here they planted corn and potatoes. In the fall of that year, Joseph Weston, Peter Heywood and one of the boys returned to Massachusetts to bring…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… Bros label X In the late 1800s production of potatoes and corn and other vegetables was sufficient enough to support at least two canneries…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… to islanders, who shipped surplus produce such as potatoes back to Boston on the same vessels. The first regular packet (small sailing craft) line…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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