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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

With the 1960's came a medical club, a junior rescue organization, a ski club, pep club, future teachers of America, and a volunteer production staff.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

Once a year, they would have lunch at school. They’d bring baked beans all hot in a bucket.” Many kids still bring cold lunches from home, but hot…

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

Some classrooms even have SMART boards, interactive whiteboards that combine a whiteboard with a computer.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

Kids needed to stay close enough to the school so that they could hear the bell or they would be punished for being late. Today some schools use a…

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

… were made the Maine guides had to row wooden boats and canoes a lot around the local ponds and lakes.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

Public BeachStrong Historical Society A public beach, however, was not available until the mid-1950s.

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks

A word of thanks We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for the help and support they provided to Team Biddeford and the…

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

The back of the boat carries all of our luggage. It takes a long time to get to Lincoln because the steamboat goes really slow.

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

… of winning and surviving, unlike someone in a boat or a tank. This war was important to the town because there were 168 people involved.

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

… the logs were placed side by side like a flat boat. The ferries came to Lincoln in the mid 1800s.

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

Boat engines and fishing equipment also changed. Fishing for tuna with a harpoon, Swan's Island, ca.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

Three of Bickford’s boats were built in a section of a building owned by Harold Burnham.(2) Burnham had bought the old Leavitt Brothers Clam Plant…

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

… enjoyed a picnic at the beach or a ride in a boat. Four friends at Fine Sand Beach, Swan's Island, ca.

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

Boats under sail (in the 1890s) or steam boats, soon thereafter, would come into Burnt Coat Harbor and collect brick sized cut stone.

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

There was still a good deal of agricultural activity going on in the area, but new industries taking advantage of the river and the sea were starting…

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

About 1866 a man named Joseph Hobson was the leading operator, owning mills on Spring Island on such a scale that he was known as "the lumber king"…

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea Wabanaki beaded purse, ca. 1870Hudson Museum, Univ.

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

A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) Lt. John R. Andrews, Biddeford, ca. 1861McArthur Public Library CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT…

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - -Across the Sea- a history through transportation

1910Swan's Island Historical Society What is life like on a Maine island? What sort of person chooses to place six miles of water between themselves…

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

Chebacco boats were larger, two-masted vessels. These boats were after cod and haddock, the only marketable fish at the time.

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

The sardine factory alone employed 100 people at the height of its success. A story continues even today that for years and years after the medicinal…

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

… traps or pots and the traps are dropped from a boat or “set.” Traps are attached by rope to a floating buoy to mark their location.

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

… twice a week when the weather would permit a sail boat to cross the bay Later they were carried daily The department established a mail route and…

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Caring For Our Families and Friends

Using its boat Sunbeam, the Mission “aids the (Maine coastal or island) town or plantation in finding and supporting a nurse or physician” including…