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

"Dairy Farms Memories Holstein dairy cow, New Sweden, ca. 1922Nylander Museum Albert’s father worked many jobs."

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 - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"My other job I worked was as a dairy boy. I would go to work at four in the morning for the dairy farm."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 2

"… a cost standpoint, circular sawed lumber made possible the large barns required by the emerging dairy industry in the post-Civil War period."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"… the hardship of the war, perishable items such as dairy and produce became more popular, which in turn required more preservation."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - 1840 U.S. Census Questions

"… is the value of the products of your orchard? Dairy? Homemade or family goods? 10. What was the value of your market garden in 1839? 11."

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

"North Yarmouth’s last dairy operation, Norman and Marion Reed's Cedar Spring Farm, closed in 1977. The agricultural heritage is still evident in area…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"Dairy, sugar and bread products, apples, pears, farming tools, carriages and harnesses. Also, quilts and spreads, carpets, rugs and plants, fancy…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"An ell and large dairy barn were added in the 1860s creating a connected farm, which was a typical New England architectural style."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"… it to keep things cold, so produce, meats, and dairy goods would stay fresh longer. Lincoln Bank Check, Bath, 1853Patten Free Library There…"

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… were for things like meat, fish, butter, fat, and dairy goods. Rationing Gas The OPA, the Office of Price Administration, was in charge of…"

Cumberland Historical Society

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United Society of Shakers

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… women’s daily work included gardening, dairying, food preparation, spinning, weaving, clothes-making, laundry, and childcare."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… homestead offered its guests fresh produce and dairy products from local farms. The Homestead offered activities, like sailing expeditions, music…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… by air ducts to the ice storage space for storing dairy products and meats. The recommended packing, or insulation, was made up of sawdust…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… by air ducts to the ice storage space for storing dairy products and meats. The recommended packing, or insulation, was made up of sawdust…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"… high school, two churches, the fire station, a dairy treat -- one of the first in Maine -- and a new factory built to replace other old mills."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… Sporting Goods store came to Town as did Guilford Dairy, Goulette’s IGA and Davis Brother’s Furniture."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… hung on and there were at least five commercial dairies in town before the Second World War. Blueberries were always a commercial crop, some hand…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… the latest footwear, the vegetable truck, the dairy wagon and even the local merchant who arrived in a large panel truck, laden with dresses and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… grass seed to be shipped downstate, and produced dairy products for the residents of the town and surrounding area."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Oakhurst Dairy, on Centre Street since 1929, and wholesale food distributer S. Prawer & Co., on Front Street just north of Summer Street since 1944…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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