Keywords: Teams of horses hauling barn to a new location
Item 10743
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
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Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
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Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"The mail had to be hauled across by hand sleds or horse and buggy. Islesboro had four post offices: North Islesborough (established 1880 in Ryder’s…"
