Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… veteran was enrolled, including Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, and McKinley. Veterans provided a local relief fund for needy…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"The hay must be used with entire economy. You will, under the direction of Mr. Gleason, attend to the objects of the wood, the rock, the teams, the…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… around 4:00 on the afternoon of April 30th in a hay shed owned by J. Frank Green at 176 Broad Street on the west side of the Kenduskeag Stream."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"Clam diggers believed they were losing flats and that clams were worth thousands of dollars more than hay."

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"Air Force dropped 1,500 tons of hay. More than 100 people and 1 million heads of livestock died it the The Great Death Blizzard."

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"… markets like blueberries, sweet corn and low cost hay. Sweet corn from Maine was popular all across the nation."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"The Susan had shipped a cargo of lime and hay from East Thomaston, Maine, to Savannah, Georgia, and was to be repaired in that town."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… grasses (known variously as cordgrass, salt hay, marsh grass, or salt meadow grass) convert the energy of the sun into usable food for the many…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 4 of 4

"Fields are still cultivated for hay or remain undeveloped. Large parcels are protected as parkland or conservations areas."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… American presidents: McKinley, Harrison, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield. To be in the G.A.R. you had to wear a uniform."

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"… get in the ice for summer, wood for winter, and hay for the animals. He lived on a farm on Roxbury Road in Mexico."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… being tinder for the entire neighborhood had the hay inside ignited. The structure was therefore moved northwestward around 1900 to a location…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… Society & Museum Well into the early 1900s salt hay was a source of income for owners of marsh acreage."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… made up of sawdust, charcoal powder, straw, or hay. Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… made up of sawdust, charcoal powder, straw, or hay. Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance…"

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

"… hard, helping to feed the animals, bale the hay and weed the gardens, they were well-educated."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"In 1840, he fell from a load of hay, breaking his collar bone and four ribs, which brought on a fever and further curving of his spine."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… first and foremost timber, but also grains, hay, hops, apples, cheese, starch, wool. Over time, Oxford County gained recognition as one of the most…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Haying c. 1910Farmington Historical Society During the 1780’s and 1790’s, corn and grain were used as money for trade."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… where a careless person left a flame near the hay. The fire was across the street from the Ledyard Block. During and after A.D."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Thomes in Cumberland, and Isaac E. Hayes in North Yarmouth. Mr. Mountford purchased his site at West Cumberland on the brook which is the outlet of…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four vessels on the stocks building at one time…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… consisted of potatoes, lumber, starch, and hay while inbound freight was fertilizer, grain, and flour."