Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"Donald A. Thurlow opened the Pine Point Seafood Market and sold fish, lobsters, clams and other seafood."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… transport live lobsters over longer distances to markets in Boston and New York. In response to a demand for lobster that exceeded the range of…"

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

"Bayley’s shipped lobsters to the Fulton Fish Market in New York City and provided lobster meat to many Old Orchard Beach, Saco and Scarborough…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… Libby transported over the road from his farm to market.(7) The “new” County Road, Route 22, made a direct connection to Gorham, Portland and the…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… the quarry is raised to be placed on a cart or wagon for transportation. The quarry worker gives scale to the granite slab."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon. You wanted solid, clean ice, you know, without snow..” Ice Table frozen in…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon. You wanted solid, clean ice, you know, without snow."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"Farm. Yard with horses, wagons, milk cans-needed) and brought new business to Lowell’s Store. Croswell's Store c."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Leslie Adkins wagon shop was built to paint and repair wagons. Piscataquis Valley Country Club was incorporated."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… latest footwear, the vegetable truck, the dairy wagon and even the local merchant who arrived in a large panel truck, laden with dresses and other…"

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…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Imagine a wagon ride during the mid 1700s from the small settlement of ancient North Yarmouth's coastal village of Yarmouth to the early inland…"

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

"The public also has opportunities to ride in wagons, carriages, and sleighs during the nonprofit organization’s fund raisers, simulating what…"

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

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

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

"… grist mill, salt box factory, starch factory, wagon shop, novelty mill, carding factory, dye house, fulling mill, clover mill, and shovel handle…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"1915 Wagons like this one would deliver Riverside Farm's milk daily to the train at Dunn's Depot. North Yarmouth Historical Society The James…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… state grew, resulting first in ferries carrying wagons and carriages and later in ferries carrying trains as the railroad extended to the east."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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