Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Electric generator delivery, Presque Isle, 1959

"Electric generator delivery, Presque Isle, 1959 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society Description Chase Transport Corporation…"

Seashore Trolley Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889

"First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The first electric…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… to the lumber industry to the Presque Isle Electric Company. Mr. Gould also served as a Maine and U.S. Senator."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad and Maine Public Service Building

"Arthur Gould later became its manager. In 1910, Gould’s long-time dream of establishing an electric railroad became a reality with the formation of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Delivery of generators, Presque Isle, 1959

"… and Aroostook Railroad delivers four diesel electric generators to Maine Public Service in Presque Isle."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad Trestle, ca. 1910

"An Electric trolley is on the trestle. The substation buildings can be seen on the opposite side of the river."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Electricity was not introduced to Islesboro until the late 1920s. Dark Harbor Village, 1906Islesboro Historical Society DARK HARBOR In 1884…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The electric company did just that in 1891. The electric company was still struggling to turn a profit and asked Gould for advice."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… with handsome mercantile blocks, with banks, electric lights, water systems equal to the best, and sewerage systems well under way."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 11 of 13

"The truck on the left has an electric hoist. When this truck was new, truck bodies were still in the transition stage from box over the rear wheels…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Wilder's Jewelry

"Ike Wilder didn’t sell just jewelry, but also electric shavers made by Schick, Remington, and Sunbeam."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… Rush, the outbreak of the Civil War, the first electric railroad, noted floods, and descriptions of churches and schools."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 22-71

"… Brownville John French George Knowles John Pomlow Electric street railroad, Bangor Col. John Black Dr."

Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"… postcard was taken between 1913 and 1922, before electricity came to Lincoln and the Library and Worsted Mill was built."

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

"… in the 1880s, the horse cars were converted to electrics or “trolleys.” By the early 1900s, electricity came to Scarborough and trolley service…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… the first hot-air balloon in Bangor, the first electric street railroad, a horseless carriage, and others."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 121-end

"… inventions and changes in life -- trolleys, gas, electric street lights, and U.S. Mail boxes. He wrote again about his family's history in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Phebe Cole Townsend's 'electric' blue dress, Alexander, ca. 1863Maine Historical Society Industrial developments made significant contributions to…"

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

"It was an electric railroad known as the Aroostook Valley Rail Road, or AVR. It also had its own train station."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"… would push a button on the loader grip to run an electric motor that will hoist the barrel onto the truck body."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4

"… day and one for evening; a bright blue, possibly ‘electric’ blue, taffeta with a combination of knife pleats, side and back double box pleats and a…"

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… and Heat Company, was the first supplier of an electric current to Hallowell. Stickney & Page Dam, Cascade, Hallowell, 1871 Stickney & Page…"