Maine Memory Network

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

"Once cut, horses and oxen, shod in bog shoes, hauled the harvested hay to staddles. To increase acreage yields, large-scale diking was undertaken."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… hauled about two miles to the landing by teams of oxen. The bark Delia Chapin, also built by Major Waterhouse, was the last ship built in the…"

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

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

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… Hill built a huge cart body and put it on four cart-wheels with 12 yoke of oxen, with all the people they could pile on to it, and drove to…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… finale of the fall Farmer’s Club was a parade of oxen. One time, it is remembered, the finale was fifty-seven yokes long."