Keywords: Dairy
Item 8654
Oakhurst Dairy gift calendar, 1970
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1970 Media: Ink on paper
Item 20276
Oakhurst Dairy, Portland, 1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1951 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 54517
362 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Oakhurst Dairy Use: Dairy
Item 54519
Assessor's Record, 364 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Oakhurst Dairy Use: Stable
Item 109818
Dairy for the Oakhurst Dairy Company, Bath, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Bath Client: Oakhurst Dairy Company Architect: Coombs and Harriman Architects
Item 148198
Opportunity Farm cow barn end framing, New Gloucester, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: University of Maine Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2
"Dairy Farms Memories Holstein dairy cow, New Sweden, ca. 1922Nylander Museum Albert’s father worked many jobs."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2
"Dairy Farms Memories Dairy cattle, Woodland, ca. 1922Nylander Museum Text by Rachel, a student at Presque Isle Middle School Images by Maine…"
Story
Growing up on a potato and dairy farm
by Paula Woodworth
Life growing up and working on a potato and dairy farm was hard work but fun in Aroostook County.
Story
My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph
Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.