Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"In the horse-drawn digger days of the early 1900s a potato picker could earn 2 or 3 cents for each full barrel."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"A ticket was only $6.00! Horse-drawn wagons were often lined up all the way from the river to the Main Road waiting their turn to off- or on-load…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… city water (1885), electric lights (1886), the horse-drawn and then electric street railway (1888, 1892)."

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

"… and recreational programs based on the role of horse-drawn transportation in the cultural, social and economic development of New England."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… the 1860s, the Portland Railroad Company operated horse-drawn cars on rails that ran through Scarborough and other area towns."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"… the number of accidents between automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles. In 1910 Scarborough citizens, following Portland’s lead, voted to limit the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The ice plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a row of sharp teeth which cut a narrow furrow six or seven inches deep."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The ice plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a row of sharp teeth which cut a narrow furrow six or seven inches deep."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… Point or Parker Point where they might be met by horse-drawn carriages to take them up Tenney Hill to George Stover's new Blue Hill Inn on what is…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"Whether they are carried by a horse drawn wagon, or a 320 horsepower truck, the island spirit survives."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… greatly from the new steamer service with horse drawn single and double hitches a common sight along the wharf."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… heading to the railroad station, often using horse-drawn buggies for transportation. Liveries were common in the age of the railroad, and a large…"

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

"Horse-drawn carriages and wagons were fundamental to our farms; they were an essential mode of transportation and would remain so into the early…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"Agricultural items got to market by a horse drawn tote wagon. There were few paying jobs and that meant little money available for families to…"

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