Maine Memory Network

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…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Fred Urquhart Farm, Presque Isle

"… per acre, yielding 217 barrels of potatoes this field. Common fertilizers are rated as having certain variable percentages of nitrogen (N)…"

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

"… X Farming Diversity Unlike large single-crop farms of the west, our local farms produced a variety of products for both farm use and sale to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… Landscape in 2009 Although many of the farm fields and pastures now lay dormant and with trees growing or houses built in them, Farmington still…"

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…"

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

"… 1900, barrels were transported to and from the field with wagons that were built with a low platform, allowing the barrels to be more easily loaded…"

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

"Fields are still cultivated for hay or remain undeveloped. Large parcels are protected as parkland or conservations areas."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Pratt Field would eventually host team sports and Chatauqua gatherings. This field was located behind the High School on High Street."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"See how Presque Isle Middle School student Isaac's grandmother occupied her time in the potato field"

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…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"The farm owner, Mr. Conant is walking across the field by two potato pickers. On the right, two men are loading a barrel by hand."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"… County used barrels to move potatoes from the field to storage. Other areas of the country used bags or baskets to do this."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… River and from surface collections of plowed fields on the George Sawyer farm in Ashland. By the Late Archaic Period (6,500 – 3, 400 years ago)…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"A superior athletic field was later added. That field, a prominent part of Farmington, became the Hippach Memorial Field in 1916."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"His tasks in the field began easy at first, simply surveying fields and prospective sites. After two years of doing this in the Minneapolis city…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"That field was later known as Pratt's Field and was used by the High School for games and practice since the High School was on the lot adjacent to…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 5 of 5

"There were good times in the potato fields and there were also bad times, too. But they always got though it."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Birds Eye mobil combine, Aroostook County, ca. 1960

"… A Birdseye mobil combine for processing pea vines in the field. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"There was no playtime in the fields. Edwena could not play in the fields because she had to work, work, and work."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"Edwena has lived in The County all her life. She started work in the potato fields when she was about seven or eight years old."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"… walked to grade school, which was up in the field behind her house in Masardis. In the seventh grade her school was across the bridge, and in high…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945

"… Mechanic Street bordering Presque Isle Army Air Field. Northeast Airlines DC-3s (as redesignated C-47s) and Northeast Airlines air crews performed…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"… potatoes would be picked from a section of the field allotted to the picker. If the section is too long, the picker would get behind and probably…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"She liked to pick flowers in a local field, and watch the clouds go by. Growing up, my mother didn’t have a TV or toys."