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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"Harvesting Potatoes LOTS OF HORSE POWER IS NEEDED X Mechanical diggers were needed to provide a more efficient way of removing potatoes from…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"CMP (Central Maine Power) were out and working and putting their skills to the test to see how fast they could turn all the power back on."

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

"This picture shows how two persons can load barrels with a battery powered hoist, one man to operate the hoist and another to place the barrels."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"The turbine turned gears, wheels, and belts that powered the mill machinery. Whiting was made from finely powdered chalk."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… settlers drinking water, a good source of food, power for mills, and ease of transportation and shipping."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… inadequate for the increasingly larger and more powerful aircraft and airport operations moved to Stroudwater."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… Fitzpatrick X Then as now knowing people in power provides clout. Revolutionary War hero Col. John Allan lived on Eastport’s Moose Island in…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"Larger fiberglass boats; more powerful diesel engines; and modern equipment, such as hydraulic pot haulers, GPS, radar, etc., enable the lobster…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"In the spring of 1906, building began on a power plant at Aroostook Falls in New Brunswick to supply much-needed power to northern Maine and New…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… the Rumford Falls Paper Company, Rumford Falls Power Company, and the Rumford Falls and Rangeley Lakes Railroad."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"He arranged for start-up capital for the power plant at Aroostook Falls and raised $20,000 from the people of Presque Isle to build a railroad…"

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… the phone line are only really working for the power company because that is how the lines are connected."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"With its resources of timber, granite, water power, fishing and hunting, Swan’s Island made an attractive settlement site for families and traveling…"

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… the Sandy River, a source of water, travel and power lured settlers to the region on the heels of the Revolutionary War."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"But the dory, following, lost power. The Callahan boat operator slacked off the engine and a worker threw a rope, which became entangled in the…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… identified as such when the syndicate was powerful at the beginning of the century. So far, there is just this one from the Canning Co.’s later…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… call when Congress declared war on the Central Powers in April 1917. Like the Spanish American war of 1898, Bangor citizens came to the aid of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… of a number of mills and a dam to provide water power for those mills; there were equally as many mills and homes surrounding the dam on both the…"