Keywords: Farm House
Item 29974
Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: North Yarmouth Media: Photographic print
Item 34227
Vaughan Farm, Employee housing, Hallowell, ca. 1933
Contributed by: Emma Clark Weeks through Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1933 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 34459
Assessor's Record, 238 Brackett Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: The Rosemont Farm, Inc. Use: Garage
Item 32758
45-47 Boyd Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: The Rosemont Farm Inc. Style: Italianate Use: Apartment
Exhibit
Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life
… early, at five o’ clock, to do chores around the farm and house. She worked in the gardens. She also had a garden after she got married.
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
