Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"There were also usually two workers per farm. When a mother fox didn’t take care of her young and a cat on the farm just had a litter, the owners…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"Workers make sure the potatoes and rocks are separated. A conveyors dumps the potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Enough farm workers left our communities to cause a great strain on those left behind during the war."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"Del retired in March 2005. He was a skilled worker and loved his job. He stills likes forestry and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… fund the purchase and operation of the Aroostook Farm which was a demonstration farm that experimented in the modern methods of potato production."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… immediately began improving the conditions of the workers. He actually stopped what little excavation was going on at the time and focused the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"If the workers had to use the bathroom, they would put barrels around themselves. They would have to go quickly because the digger man would start…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Train Station, Presque Isle, ca. 1908

"… Description Photograph shows railroad workers and clerks in a Bangor and Aroostook Railroad station."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"… from the rows by hand, although there were some workers with hand diggers who could keep up with the early mechanical diggers."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… a break to the potato pickers and other field workers. Worn lags would have to be replaced with new ones."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"Workers there would unload the full barrels and put the empty barrels (empties) back onto the truck."

Old Berwick Historical Society

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"Residents of the City Farm worked the land and produced goods and produce sold in town to earn their place."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 14 of 17

"City Farm (Poor Farm), Biddeford, ca. 1910McArthur Public Library The high cost of soldier's bounties paid by the cities, had an overall negative…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry

"Fish factory worker, Marion Stinson, Swan's Island, ca. 1990Swan's Island Historical Society The business employed seven or eight islanders full…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"Many of the houses on Red Row were two story houses. Most had an attic and some even had a basement. Many homes in town were also farms."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"In 1902 the company had 150 workers working with a daily output of fifty thousand shingles and fifteen thousand different types of lumber a day."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Then state-funded workers dug up the graves and reburied the remains in the graveyard at the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded, as of 2022 the…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"… producer of shoes for ladies, had employed 450 workers, and made over 2.5 million dollars a year."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"Workers from Europe, especially Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, England, came to build the dams, canals, brick structures, and other…"

Thomaston Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"That first year, workers produced about 15,000 pounds of cheese, which was sold mostly to Lewiston and Portland businesses for 15¢ a pound."