Keywords: work wagon
Item 17189
Farm work wagon, Presque Isle, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Presque Isle Media: Digital photograph
Item 10882
Taber Wagon, Houlton, ca. 1909
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: Houlton Media: Postcard
Exhibit
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
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865
"Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4
"… in the 1930s, farmers would keep a horse and wagon as backup. Aviation fever came to Scarborough in 1926 when Chester Jordan and Phillips Payson…"
Story
A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn
The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.
Story
My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham
A story about my father and our family.
