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Skyline Farm

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

"By the summer of 2000, the Skyline Farm organization and the Sowles family arranged a purchase with a conservation easement through the Royal River…"

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

"… The Grange movement has evolved to include non-farm rural families and communities. According to Dennis Sven Nordin, author of "Rich Harvest: A…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"Organic farming is becoming very popular in Maine and the organization MOFCA is thriving as it brings together small organic farmers who are trying…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming

"Community members raised their own farm animals. Farm animals were needed to do the heavy work such as plowing and also as transport of people from…"

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

"… X Farming Diversity Unlike large single-crop farms of the west, our local farms produced a variety of products for both farm use and sale to…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… Society, Cumberland Historical Society, Skyline Farm and the towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth."

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."

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 - 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 - 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 - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… was a 70 foot white spruce from the Elmbrook farm of Miss Alice Kimball. The tree, estimated to be over 100 years old, had a diameter at the base…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Ladies' Third Annual Banquet, Farmington, 1893

"This was organized by an ad hoc group of women rather than one of the organized clubs in Farmington."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott and Fewacres, Farmington, 1903

"… with Farmington, and with the forerunner organizations of the current Public Library. View additional information about this item on the Maine…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - About Us

"… items contributed by over 200 historical organizations around Maine; nearly 100 online exhibits that explore a diverse range of themes and topics…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… himself in almost all phases of the work from organizing, locating, constructing, and surveying it."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… Tannery Sites Farmington Historical Sites for Organized Sports Historic Maps Overlayed in Google Earth: A feature of GIS software is the ability…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… games, plus track meets, football games and organized sports for developing athletes. Hippach Field, ca."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… and his wife, Helen Davis, were instrumental in organizing the Cumberland Library. The Cumberland Library was housed in the home of volunteer…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Pioneer Club, Presque Isle, ca. 1915

"Park. The Presque Isle Pioneer Club was organized in June 1915 by the remaining living pioneers of the town."

Presque Isle: The Star City - St. John's Episcopal Church Building

"John’s Episcopal Church was organized in the late 1860s. The building was constructed in 1875 in the “Gothic Revival” style with board and batten…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Allen Building

"Later the building became the first organized bank called the Presque Isle National Bank. The next change for the building happened when it became…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library

"The group organizing the library was the called Half and Half Club. Later the Carnegie Foundation donated 10,000 dollars toward creating a library…"