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Skyline Farm

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

"… now the location of “Skyline Farm.” By 1801, the land had been transformed into a working farm producing small grain crops which helped support…"

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Fox farms were a very large business. Fox farms were like having a farm with all kinds of animals on it."

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…"

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 - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"They built a house and farmed land between the Royal (Wescustogo) and Cousins (Chusquissacke) Rivers, in what is now present-day Yarmouth and…"

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…"

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 - Early Settlers

"Alexander Hillman, an ambitious man, owned a farm near the town limits toward Industry and was reputed to have had one of the largest farms in town."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"In many municipalities, the local town farm was established, giving the poor a place to reside, work the land and contribute to their own upkeep."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Native Americans had a much different concept of land ownership. It was not unusual for them to sell land to different exploring entrepreneurs."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"By 1900, children who lived on farms might be boarded at the expense of the town, or they were provided transportation."

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 - Working in Maine

"… and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood. He enjoys gardening and has his own Christmas tree farm where he grows 700 trees a year."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… fund the purchase and operation of the Aroostook Farm which was a demonstration farm that experimented in the modern methods of potato production."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

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

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"His mother then decided to lease out the farm for which Arthur was happy as he did not enjoy farming. Arthur’s first job was at the age of 14."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… bark to make a chain (the tool used to measure land) that was one rod in length. Using a very large boulder as the corner (a stationary object used…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"He purchased land, subdivided it, and created a new neighborhood near his home and with it, came a street that still bears his name."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… could not fly for more then that distance without landing on something, therefore if they had nothing to land on they could not reach the site."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"John Church deeded two and a half acres of land to the citizens of Farmington, to create a Village Center."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"While there is no apparent survey, it appears the homestead included all the land behind the house toward what is now Quebec Street."

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

"… first car-load of timber for the new depot was landed upon the grounds of the Railroad Company, in this village."