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

"… Society To get money, she picked potatoes during harvest, and also she babysat. She babysat the town manager’s three boys next door."

Ambajejus Boom House

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Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"Ice harvesters have had a hard time with the flood also. Two nearly build ice shacks have been blown in the river by a gale."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca. 1930Hubbard Free Library When they cut the blocks of ice, people stored it until summer."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca. 1930Hubbard Free Library When they cut the blocks of ice, people stored it until summer."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"There is no quick way to harvest clams; only hand tools or hands are allowed by the state. The process of harvesting clams hasn’t changed over the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… in various industries, including ice harvesting and granite quarrying. Ice cutting would become an important industry, and remained so until the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"They harvested salt hay as fodder for cattle and sheep and used the marsh for summer pasture. Many settlers were often assigned a marsh lot (or lots)…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… of one of the new colony’s first successful harvests, hoping to establish trade with the Abenaki people."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 9 of 17

"… Biddeford and Saco to work in textile mills, ice harvesting manufactures, lumber mills, and granite quarries."

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"… and prosperous village, surrounded by farms at harvest time. Figuratively – in its depiction of an Edenic place made secure for the sunbonneted…"

Haystack Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"… but the only way to effectively transport the harvested timber to southern markets was by rail. The Central Maine Railroad stopped at Farmington…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"According to Dennis Sven Nordin, author of "Rich Harvest: A History of the Grange, 1867 to 1900," Grange rituals incorporated a mixture of Greek and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… human needs of food, clothing and shelter, to harvesting and developing the land for commerce and trade taking place both on land and at sea, and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"… the river froze and shipping halted, the ice was harvested by a Hampden company, Dirigo Ice Company, and shipped to cities in the south to help aid…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"… knowledge of ship measurement requirements would harvest lumber and oversee its transport back to Thomaston."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"“ Pa, how come you're not gettin’ ready for the harvest?” “Well son, Mr. Gordon came by earlier today and said we're not harvesting enough fox furs…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… in North Carolina and Georgia, where lumber was harvested and brought back to Thomaston for new ship construction."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… men cleared the fields where women planted and harvested corn. From a European perspective, Wabanaki men held the majority of public political…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… wood, and natural plant and animal fibers, they harvested an incredibly diverse range of mammals, birds and fish, and gathered plants for food…"

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

"… with huge trees which the European settlers could harvest for trade with England. More settlers followed and began to farm along the coast."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"Wabanakis harvested their own fish and sea mammals, but lard and flour usually came from the annual distribution of annuity goods which the state…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"In mud season it was particularly difficult. harvesting wheatSkowhegan History House As the 1800s went on, the railroad opened up the Midwest…"