Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"Its first factory began operations at the end of Seavey’s Landing Road in Blue Point before 1869, using the same canning process as that used for…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"The factory was successful and ultimately employed thousands of people. By 1959 Snow’s had become part of the Borden Corporation."

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Later it produced wooden lasts for the shoe factories. Boston Flint Company sandpaper mill beside Vaughan Brook.Courtesy of Sumner A."

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

"… for someone on foot, 31 cents for a horse and carriage, and 3 cents apiece for sheep or pigs. Shipbuilding had started, of course, with the first…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"Zina was a bridge builder, a wagon & carriage builder and a businessman in the Corn Canning Industry."

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

"Morse Cabinet Maker W. Sylvester Carriage Maker A.L. Watson “ “ H. Clark Tanner & Currier Z.F. Moor Blacksmith Judkins & Lucke “ & Carriage Works…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… the first electric street railroad, a horseless carriage, and others. He speculated in the second scrapbook about things he might live to see."

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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"(Farmington Town Reports) This carriage, built by C. A. Pinkham, a Farmington wagon, carriage and sleigh builder, came to the Farmington Historical…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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