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

"Workers there would unload the full barrels and put the empty barrels (empties) back onto the truck."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… 1879 the Swan’s Island fleet landed 15 thousand barrels of mackerel selling at $5 each. In 1881 three of the ten most successful boats of the New…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"It takes about four baskets of potatoes to fill a barrel. A full basket will weigh about 30 pounds. The basket pictured here is 16 inches (40 cm) in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"The pickers would make about 25 to 30 cents for a barrel. Her family would use the money to buy clothes for school."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"Father and son making ice cream, Swan's Island, ca. 1942Swan's Island Historical Society Families would also make ice cream when they had enough…"

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

"Pulp hooks, barrel hoists, and even knives could be made from worn digger lags. Former farmer Larry Park talks about diggers and digger lags."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Holiday Events

"… terminal as part of the Fourth of July celebrations. Islanders would make a point of having a lobster meal as part of their 4th celebrations."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Draining the quarry

"… filled up the pit and iced over in the winter to make a popular skating pond. When the pond was drained in 2003, many treasures were found: old…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - -Across the Sea- a history through transportation

"So, too, have they adapted to make a living off the sea that separates them from the rest of the world."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"This has been a challenging shift to make for some of the island residents who were accustomed to recognizing the faces and names of those they met…"

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

"… potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more baskets, no more tickets and no more picking potatoes."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Exhibits

"So please enter our exhibits, listen to our stories, and make your own comparisons as if you were visiting our island."

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

"… not, and a steady stream of settlers continued to make their way to the island. In 1834, Swan’s Island was organized as a plantation, and in 1847…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… owners on the island did not always expect to make a handsome profit, sometimes giving food on semi-permanent credit when they saw neighbors in…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"The rag picker took the barrel home, and dumped its contents on the ground. These are the buttons and buckles that Mazie Douglass found, years later."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… needed for boats, dwellings, barns, fences, and barrels. They cut hay in the salt marshes and turned ancient forest trails into paths and dirt…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"He was a cooper, a maker of barrels, and the sheltered harbor near the head of Somes Sound offered running water and plenty of hardwood."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"store. Shoppers could buy a barrel of flour for the price of a cord of wood. They also sold large dried codfish, which customers would take home to…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… boats for local fishing and Clement making fish barrels, washtubs and pails. Soon there was a log store at the Seal Harbor beach, and one on the…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"Potatoes were down from 45¢ to 15¢ a barrel. Timber was becoming scarce and many mills had to close down."

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."

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

"… son Dick and his wife Connie operate the Apple Barrel store on Blanchard Road in Cumberland into the 21st century. Arno S."

Acadian Archives

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