Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… prisoners were taught how to build wooden wagons, buckboards, buggies and sleighs. This led to the production of harnesses and tack for horses."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… sail or steam)? Brave an island tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field and pick wildflowers? Some combination of these? Richards family, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… and tooters for the hotels, who swept them up in buckboards and whirled them at a gallop to their hotels.” -Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Aug."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"Travel around the island was by water or rickety “buckboard” carriages on rough, bumpy, steep buckboard roads."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Carriages, wagons, buckboards, sleighs, and four-runner sleds were driven by one or two horses. Dark Harbor Wharf, Islesboro, 1917Islesboro…"