Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings on Wheels Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… examples around Mount Desert Island of "houses on wheels." Readers are encouraged to find other examples around the Island of transformed…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… feet of boards 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…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"The turbine turned gears, wheels, and belts that powered the mill machinery. Whiting was made from finely powdered chalk."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"He ran a bicycle shop – selling and repairing “wheels”. He sold Florida Boilers, a business that grew rapidly."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… of the area.” With his oft-present measuring wheel Avery explored the route. Avery and companions on Hunt Trail X Steve Clark, past president…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"The wheel of the cart ended up in a pot hole, however, and the natives were exposed to the settlers' fire. Six natives were killed and 15 wounded."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 1 of 3

"All they had was a linen hose, a two-wheeled hose reel, and a sled for in the winter. They were paid around three dollars a year."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"He made a wood splitter powered by a water wheel, and he cut cucumbers slices with it. When he was older, he and his brother, Samuel, worked together…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"Early entertainment included the Ferris Wheel, which is still popular, and an assortment of rides ranging from the sedate (animals rides) to the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… Asticou dwellings that should have been built on wheels. It was originally built and sited around 1820 near the northeast corner of the present-day…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… equipment they had was one linen hose, one two-wheeled hose reel that they could use in the summer, and a sled they could use in the winter."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"Superintendent Frank Kent placed the wheels in motion, and in 1948 Piscataquis Community High School was formed."

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

"Heaters were essential for four wheeled wagons and carriages whose wheels could not easily make perpendicular turns."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… 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 Dixfield…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… well as a bowling alley, merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, wooden swings, dancing pavilion, open-air stage casino, picnic spots along the shore, and…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… the Larchmont “as one of the finest side-wheel steamers of her day, well over 250 feet long with 37 feet of beam."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… a wagon or a gun, they either burnt or cut the wheels to pieces and threw the ammunition into a mudpuddle."

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

"… with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3) At each mile a stake was driven into the ground and a crew…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"Fall and spring it traveled on wheels and in the winter on runners.The number of school children riding school buses in Scarborough has risen…"

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

"… equipment which consisted of linen hose, a two wheeled hose reel, and a sled for winter use. The pay for firemen was either $3 per year or their…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"On the other side: cracker barrels, cheese wheels, beans, sugar, spices, slabs of salt fish, molasses barrels and the pot belly stove."

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

"… wood turning plant, equipping it with a new water wheel to power the mill. Lester Henderson was influential in business and town government."