Keywords: Carriage Road
Item 21176
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Mount Desert; Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 57204
Road crew on horse-drawn road grader, Strong, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Strong Media: Glass Negative
Item 111546
Cottage for Francis Cushing on Cushing Island, Portland, ca. 1896
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1896 Location: Portland Client: Francis Cushing Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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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
Exhibit
Reuben Ruby: Hackman, Activist
Reuben Ruby of Portland operated a hack in the city, using his work to earn a living and to help carry out his activist interests, especially abolition and the Underground Railroad.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… by the mile, Franklin rode the post roads in his carriage with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3)…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"… Canadian tourists no longer had to endure long carriage trips to visit Scarborough beaches. By the 1870s, sixty-five trains a day brought…"