Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"The truck was driven back to the potato field so that the empties could be dropped onto the picker's sections."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… Settlement Wheeler and Crosby Text by Karyn Field Crosby's Grist Mill Store, called Old Brick Store, Hampden, built in 1807Hampden Historical…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… but gave a break to the potato pickers and other field workers. Worn lags would have to be replaced with new ones."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… River flowing high with melting winter snows from fields, from dark forests, water crashing to granite rock, spray leaping high in the air, rainbow…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"From a European perspective, Wabanaki men held the majority of public political power, yet, women wielded important forms of influence, including…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Brave an island tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field and pick wildflowers? Some combination of these? Richards family, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"While water provided the power, the forests and fields provided the raw materials: first and foremost timber, but also grains, hay, hops, apples…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… Introduction Text by Karyn Field with images from the Hampden Historical Society and the Penobscot Marine Museum Upper Corner businesses…"

Maine State Museum

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… vicinity of a river which could be harnessed for power to run saw mills, shingle mills, grist mills, or anything else that needed more power than…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… on a large scale: large farms and mowing fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… Swan’s Island fishermen became experts in their field. "From 1874 to 1889 Swan’s Island fishing vessels took either the first or second place every…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The Gazetteer of Maine, 1882 reported: “The tide power privilege available at North Lubec is equaled by very few on the entire coast."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Dow Field Anniversary ParadeBangor Public Library By 1940, war had broken out in Europe once again. In the Far East, Japan had invaded China."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Pratt Field would eventually host team sports and Chatauqua gatherings. This field was located behind the High School on High Street."

St. Croix Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… 1812, Civil War and WWI took the men out of the fields, leaving farm hands in short supply. Agriculture During World War I World War I began in…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… establishes Bay of Fundy Right Whale Research Field Station in Lubec Water Street, Lubec, ca. 1935Lubec Memorial Library 1990 • R.J."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Pendleton & Company. Captain Fields Seeley Pendleton (1870-1923) lived across the street from the store."

Colby College Special Collections

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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