Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"The teacher rolled a large, bulky projector on a cart into the classroom. The movies were reel-to-reel and usually featured newsreel type…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"During the winter months when there was snow, sleigh cars replaced the horse cars. Some time after Portland became electrified in the 1880s, the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"… the number of accidents between automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles. In 1910 Scarborough citizens, following Portland’s lead, voted to limit the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… 1, and was funded by tolls of eight cents for a horse and twenty-five cents for a stagecoach. Objecting to the toll, stagecoach operator Josiah…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Once cut, horses and oxen, shod in bog shoes, hauled the harvested hay to staddles. To increase acreage yields, large-scale diking was undertaken."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… and was funded by toll rates, eight cents for a horse and twenty-five cents for a stagecoach. Objecting to the twenty-five cent tariff to cross the…"

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

"Aviation fever came to Scarborough in 1926 when Chester Jordan and Phillips Payson purchased land for an airport off Manson Libby Road."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Oak Hill station was a busy shipping point for horses and livestock for the Union Army.(6) Scarboro Beach Railroad Station, 1909Scarborough…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"In 1860 the folks on Severy Hill built a huge cart body and put it on four cart-wheels with 12 yoke of oxen, with all the people they could pile on…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"The quarry worker gives scale to the granite slab. Stone and statuary were protected during shipment (by ship, and after 1852, by rail) in crates…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"1970Lubec Landmarks Wheeled herring cart: Left under cover when McCurdy’s closed was this cart, now on exhibit in the Skinning/Packing Shed."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"Draining and drying the herring on carts Frank Van Riper, photo X Step five: Inside the smokehouse The actual smoking operations were complex…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"They could hear sheep blatting in their pens." And so it is still. Aerial oblique view of Blue Hill Fair, ca."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"The Hillman Family Mary Pettengill Hillman carte de visite, ca. 1875Farmington Historical Society This family also came from Martha’s Vineyard…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… transportation to the Academy than horse and cart or walking. High school students had to pay to ride the local bus for some time before it became…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"And still the work goes on. Nearly as fast as the piles are driven, they are capped, and the stringers and track timbers laid, in the direction of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Gould traveled to his customers’ sites by cart and horse. The trip from Old Town to Fort Kent would take five weeks round trip."