Item 11811info Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum
Bangor & Aroostook Railway had opened a line to Houlton in January 1894 and branch lines soon followed.
In a 10-year period -- 1890-1900 -- 1,000 new farms were started in Aroostook County. Potatoes dominated the county.
In 1910, a Colorado potato farmer said, "Houlton . . . is the only place where I have been talked to a standstill on the subject of potatoes. I never met people who were so eager for knowledge in connection with potatoes." (Clarence A. Day, Farming in Maine, 1860-1940, University of Maine Studies, Second Series, No. 78)
