Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… for the compensation of the postmaster and mail carrier The pay was so small that great difficulty was experienced in getting a mail carrier and it…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"1890Hubbard Free Library The wagon-like carriers were called "galamanders," and were usually pulled by 8 to 10 teams of horses or oxen."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"… so we made a lot of money that day! It took three carrier trucks to bring all of the farm trucks to Presque Isle."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"… built in 1919/1920 by Dunn and Elliot as a coal carrier. In 1928 when coal was eliminated as a cargo item, the Reine Marie was towed from Portland…"

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"The first mail carrier went by the last name of Moor. He drowned in the Mattawamkeag River. The body was found in Babcock’s Boom in what now is…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"Bridle paths were the only tracks for early mail carriers through the wilderness north of Augusta. The first mail route to Strong was established in…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"There was a carrier, we called it, and the flakes with the fish on them came down the carrier. We’d pick the flake right up and put it on our table…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… had no bridge until 1837, so at first the mail carrier had to ford the waters at the Narrows or ride Captain Thompson's ferry."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… the housing for the pump, the flexible hose that extended down into the hold of the sardine carrier, and the exterior part of the sluiceway."

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"… much more weight, such as big trucks and car carriers, woods equipment, cars, trucks, etc. Ferry Transportation Diorama by Walter Cote X Jim…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… the stagecoaches replaced those equine mail carriers. As Strong grew, townspeople added churches and schools."

Westport Island History Committee

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Lubec – 583 inhabitants Sailing Sardine Carriers Docking, Lubec, ca. 1900Lubec Memorial Library 1800 – 1850 1804 – 1830 • Twenty vessels…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… was a farmer and East North Yarmouth's first mail carrier at the turn of the century. His daughter Charlotte became a schoolteacher and taught for…"