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Historical Items

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Item 12763

Fish Cannery Worker Transportation Bus, Brooklin, 1948

Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1948 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency

Item 6542

Canning factory, Fryeburg, 1938

Contributed by: Fryeburg Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: Fryeburg Media: Photographic print

Item 10867

Taber Wagon Factory, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: Houlton Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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"We are growing to be somewhat cosmopolitan..." Waterville, 1911

Between 1870 and 1911, Waterville more than doubled in size, becoming a center of manufacturing, transportation, and the retail trade and offering a variety of entertainments for its residents.

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Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

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Taber Wagon

The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community

Site Pages

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"The factory was constructed in a U-shape and was laid out so that a truck chassis would enter on one side of the building and progress through…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory

"This factory had been organized by local farmers, and the farmers named the factory the Sandy River Cheese Company."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Starch Factory, c. 1965

"Potato Starch Factory, c. 1965 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society Description A step in the process of producing potato starch…"