Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"As a gentleman farmer, he sold surplus marsh hay and leased marsh lots to farmers to raise hay for winter fodder."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Marion Sanborn

"… told my grandmother, “I don’t wanna marry a farmer, I don’t want to be a farmers wife.” I, you know I loved the horses, looking at them and all…"

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

"… the climate was mild, raising expectations among farmers and prompting the introduction of new cash crops, including such exotic ones as silkworms."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"… a full front-page article submitted by “A Farmer” regarding the separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts.[4] Separation was not a new…"

Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"Most wanted to become successful farmers as well as practicing physicians. Because of Hallowell's close connections to professional and commercial…"

Guilford, Maine - WELCOME

"Learn about our people, from the early settlers, farmers, and land holders, through merchants and businessmen, to the soldiers and heroes who lived…"

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

"A return to cooler temperatures in the early 1830s and an increase in precipitation that lasted for nearly fifty years brought the state’s farmers…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… on his accomplishments as an inventor, a gardener/farmer, and a worker. In a journal he began writing in 1864, Martin described a cart he invented…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"Judkins, wife of farmer Benjamin Judkins, and her four daughters, all modestly attired in contrast to the Deerings. With her hand to her cheek, Mrs."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Cumberland Farmers Club. “The Cumberland County Fair.” www.cumberlandfair.com Cumberland Farmers Market."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"… families, and were not only seamen, but farmers and lumbermen as well. In 1789, the Town of Mt."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… socialized as they worked, but now fraternal and farmer's groups, such as the Grange, which reached its peak in the early part of the century…"

Skowhegan Community History - About the Project

"… and correspondence of Alexander Crawford, a farmer from Skowhegan who had fought in the Civil War. They had just scratched the surface."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"Fogg, John D. “Recollections of a Salt Marsh Farmer.” Seabrook, New Hampshire: Historical Society of Seabrook, New Hampshire, 1983."

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

"Each farmer marked his sheep and then let them find their own food. Sheep would often be put on a boat and brought to one of the smaller outer…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"Lapham, Press of the Maine Farmer, Boston, MA. 1890; Hugh J. Chisholm’s Magic Town, 1882-1912, by Peter McKenna (Master’s Thesis); The Oxford Story…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"1855Maine Historical Society The presence of a farmer and a sailor on the Maine State Seal symbolizes the importance of agricultural and maritime…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"Underpaid Continental veterans and indebted farmers from southern New England flocked northward, believing land was the just entitlement of their…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"One farmer, Conrad Bailey is walking in the footsteps of 8 generations of Baily farmers. Although the large farms are few, several smaller farms are…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"When the farmers drove their wagons to Society meetings, they brought their prize horse, cow, sheep and perhaps a pig to show off to the other…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… were mainly impoverished squatters surviving as farmers, hunters, fisherman.Theirs is partly a story of discrimination; they were often referred to…"

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… were worth more than any other product a farmer could produce, and large quantities were shipped from Hallowell until the middle of the 19th…"