Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Leslie Adkins wagon shop was built to paint and repair wagons. Piscataquis Valley Country Club was incorporated."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"A ticket was only $6.00! Horse-drawn wagons were often lined up all the way from the river to the Main Road waiting their turn to off- or on-load…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"“Rags! Rags!” a voice yells. You hand out your rag bag, and the man collects the contents. The Rag Man, as many called him, would come every month to…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… store, filling station, a garage and 3 grocery stores on the main street and Lester Henderson had a small grocery store across the river on Route…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Horse-drawn carriages and wagons were fundamental to our farms; they were an essential mode of transportation and would remain so into the early…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"There were few paying jobs and that meant little money available for families to purchase items necessary for farming."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"1915 Wagons like this one would deliver Riverside Farm's milk daily to the train at Dunn's Depot. North Yarmouth Historical Society The James…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Pinkham, a Farmington wagon, carriage and sleigh builder, came to the Farmington Historical Society from Parkman, a small town in Piscataquis County."