Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"Farm Life Myron Gartley Farm, Presque Isle, 1976Presque Isle Historical Society King Farm, Presque Isle, ca."

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

"By the summer of 2000, the Skyline Farm organization and the Sowles family arranged a purchase with a conservation easement through the Royal River…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"The early Town Warrants tell us the town hired Henry to build a box for their town records and to make a roller for the town maps."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"Vickery, known as Jim, grew up on his family’s farm. At an early age, he showed intellectual promise, and his parents sent him to the Maine Central…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"Returning to Maine, he settled on a farm in Waldoboro, where he never experienced a day of sickness until shortly before his death on February 19…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming

"Community members raised their own farm animals. Farm animals were needed to do the heavy work such as plowing and also as transport of people from…"

Early Maine Photography - War

"… the age of eighteen, James Davis left his family farm in Plymouth to join Company I of the Ninth Maine Regiment."

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"… in the northwest Hancock County, where they farmed and raised their family. Large families were common in the mid-nineteenth century, as reflected…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"Besides building their homes, these families farmed, fished, dug clams and sold wood to ships which arrived here from distant places."

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

"Spring Brook Farm on Greely Road, started in the early 1800s by Beza Blanchard, began commercial operations under Frank Blanchard after his service…"

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

"… Agricultural Pursuits In the early 1800’s, as farms became more established, crops in Farmington expanded to include clover for cattle feed, flax…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"Lowell’s bought oats and corn in lots of five or six carloads. They bought flour by the carload too. It is written that in the early 1890’s, “one car…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Although the large farms are few, several smaller farms are producing foods locally. The Farmington community still supports its agricultural…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Brook trout X Trout Farming Trout farming was established in Cumberland around 1902 when William H."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"The Marston-Lawrence farm X Riverside Farm The Marston-Lawrence homestead still stands on North Road in North Yarmouth overlooking a small oxbow…"

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

"Betsey died first, at the age of ninety, in 1839. In 1840 Stephen sold his farm and moved into Farmington Village with two of his daughters on Anson…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13

"… Potatoes ONTO THE TRUCK Sweetser Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1900Presque Isle Historical Society Around 1900, barrels were transported to and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Early Athletics The early High School Newspaper, The Solecism, mentions several athletic encounters as early as 1886."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"View of Farmington from Titcomb Hill Farm, ca. 1885Farmington Historical Society Although no longer the bustling agricultural hub it was in the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… and fur traders were supplanted by more stable farming settlements. The abundance of timber, good harbors and a demand for sailing vessels resulted…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… Society, Cumberland Historical Society, Skyline Farm and the towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… were used to build ships in Yarmouth’s harbor; farms produced crops that were sold in the village and village merchants sold goods to the rural…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Skyline Farm looks much the same today as it did more than a century ago, and its approach on a dirt road reminds us of what our old roads once…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Cummings. The doctor built this island farm in 1856. The previous year Solomon Hanscomb and his two sons discovered a jug filled with fifty-two…"