Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Jasper Beckwith Spraying Potatoes, Presque Isle, 1940

"… Horses were still used in 1940 for many farm chores. Here is shown a type of sprayer that appears to power the pump off the wheels."

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 - Our Shared History - Page 4 of 4

"The Historical Societies, as well as Skyline Farm and Carriage Museum, provide ties to the past, inviting and encouraging residents to remember their…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"… here to see the images pertaining to Skyline Farm. Here are some materials on the history of the towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth…"

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

"Cumberland Town Farm, 1857 X Living idly The laws provided for the creation of work houses where the idle and indigent could live and work."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… fluid arrangement for the Eastern Abenaki, who farmed the fertile plains of the Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers, and spread out along lands west…"

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."

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…"

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…"

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 - 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…"

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

"This picture shows the Myron Gartley farm in 1976. <kids rolling on the barrels> As you can see, the younger pickers did not seem to mind a break."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"One time the potato service bought about 25 farm trucks at once and they were all red and white. Those trucks cost about $1,700 each so we made a lot…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"… go to work at four in the morning for the dairy farm. I would get done at eleven and work for Carroll’s until five at night."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"Growing up on a farm he had his own pony named Scout that he broke himself. He would chase his siblings around the pastures."

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 - 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 - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"… Isle Historical Society Up until the 1970s when farms became more automated, farmers in Aroostook County used barrels to move potatoes from the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 12 of 13

"Like most tools on smaller family farms, barrel grapples were made locally, sometimes by the farmer himself."

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."