Maine Memory Network

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."

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

"… chance of being the largest state to produce potatoes in the country. All they needed was a train to transport them."

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… was quite good and yielded good crops of corn, potatoes, wheat, oats, etc. Later, hops were grown and exported to the Boston area for beer making."

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."

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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

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

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… for this purpose they must have boiled potatoes, meal, and a little salt when necessary. The hay must be used with entire economy."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… order to stop the Rations of Bacon and give out Potatoes – Onions and Dried Apple instead. I wish you could see some of the Bacon it is such green…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"… Roast Turkey (captured while on Picket) Sweet Potatoes (bought at the moderate Price of 3 cts apeace) Oysters (Raw with pepper & Vinegar) Hoe Cake…"

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"… used by the children to warm their corn cakes and potatoes for lunch. Unfortunately the Guilford Center School met an early demise as it became the…"

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…"

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."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Just a little wheat was raised and a few potatoes. Many stories have been told about that difficult year. It snowed sometime during every month."

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…"

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."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… ham, sandwiches, lobster salad, boiled or mashed potatoes, and peas, with ice cream or cake for dessert."

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."

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."

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…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Exports were salt and smoked fish, sardines, potatoes, hay, wood and other agricultural products. By 1880 the era of sail had given way to the rise…"

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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