Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… owners to add hitching rails for their patrons’ horses if they wished. In her memoir, Down Memory Lane, Emily Phillips Reynolds recalls the Ober…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… Distance Telephone, Telegraphic Office, Saddle Horses, [and] Excellent Livery” (Wood 73). The Inn offered the public performances of a small…"

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"They came by horse and returned by canoe. Soon, people from Benedicta started coming to worship the Catholic religion in Lincoln."

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

"Agricultural items got to market by a horse drawn tote wagon. There were few paying jobs and that meant little money available for families to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Foxes were fed fish and horse meat. When it was time for the foxes to be skinned, they were skinned in the late fall."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Betsey’s brother went with them and he drove a horse-sled filled with beds and other furniture. Betsey, her young son and the baby rode in the sled."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… to Society meetings, they brought their prize horse, cow, sheep and perhaps a pig to show off to the other farmers."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Print. Bangor Lumber Company lumbermen with horses, ca. 1910Bangor Public Library Lumber schooners on the Penobscot River at Bangor, ca."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"And still the work goes on. Nearly as fast as the piles are driven, they are capped, and the stringers and track timbers laid, in the direction of…"

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

"… and housing was installed which was rated for 150 horse power. This business furnished employment for many and gave a ready market for birch timber."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… paid $6 a week, which included the board for his horse. It seems that he was principal for less than a year, for one Elias Upton was subsequently…"

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

"Horse-drawn carriages and wagons were fundamental to our farms; they were an essential mode of transportation and would remain so into the early…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Fred Titcomb's horses, load of hay, Falmouth Corner, early 1900sNorth Yarmouth Historical Society Request from Elizabeth B."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… traveled to his customers’ sites by cart and horse. The trip from Old Town to Fort Kent would take five weeks round trip."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… long after, the town was seeing the “mechanical horse” on the streets. A number of dealerships were advertising their “exceptional machines” by…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… “trotting park.” This oval was created to keep horse races off of Main St. (More About Franklin County Agricultural Fair) U.S."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… up the Kennebec River and over land by foot or horse through unsettled areas following the trails of early trappers or Indians."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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