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Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading sugar beets, Aroostook County, ca. 1975

"In the 1970s, potato farmers in Aroostook County grew sugar beets as a rotation crop with potatoes. While a promising concept, scheduling problems…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"… her brothers and sisters were old enough to pick potatoes, her mother and father would make her clothes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"My mother and father did have sweet potatoes, but they were the size of a twelve year-old’s fist. It was normal to eat only lunch and dinner in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"… Aroostook Railroad refrigerator cars for shipping potatoes. Cement blocks were manufactured in the small building on the left."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"The average car cost about$2,500 dollars. Most cars back then were standard shift and had no radio. In fact, cars were so cheap back then that people…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"The potato became so important that in 1913 Thomas Phair and other leading Presque Isle businessmen convinced the state legislature to fund the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"When she was young they had hamburgers, hotdogs, and soups. Now there is pizza and baked potatoes. Her favorite fair food would be a hotdog."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"The two trolley cars are “combine” cars as they have two compartments, one for passengers and one for baggage and express freight."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"One of his efforts paid off when he was instrumental in obtaining an increase on the tariff on Canadian potatoes entering the United States."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley R.R., Presque Isle, ca. 1939

"Car #52 now is at Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport. Reproduction of an earlier postcard. View additional information about this item on the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"Another old car that’s not in business today is the Citroen. The Citroen was the first foreign made car to be sold in Aroostook County."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"After I stopped working for the dairy farm, I worked cleaning cars and as a grease monkey. Also at night I would go down to Carroll’s and under-coat…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales Buildings

"… and students Carroll’s Auto Sales is the oldest car dealer in Presque Isle. Skippy Carroll first established it in 1957, on the corner of Jordan…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… School Shop class for transport to the railroad car. Cutting tree, Presque Isle, October, 1959Presque Isle Historical Society Snow adds to…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… 17 barrels of pot ashes 1 pair of wheels lamb, potato, fish, bread, butter 15m 73 feet of boards 1/2 loaf of bread 1/2 bushel of potatoes 2 barrels…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"Potatoes had given them a bigger profit when the times were getting hard. By 1879 over $25,000 worth of potatoes had come through Guilford."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Settled in 1780, the pioneers planted corn, potatoes and turnips to get them through the first winter."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… ham, sandwiches, lobster salad, boiled or mashed potatoes, and peas, with ice cream or cake for dessert."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… to islanders, who shipped surplus produce such as potatoes back to Boston on the same vessels. The first regular packet (small sailing craft) line…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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