Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"It was not until the arrival of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in the 1890s that Aroostook farmers had a more direct route to markets in Boston…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Delivery of generators, Presque Isle, 1959

"… Society Description The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad delivers four diesel electric generators to Maine Public Service in Presque Isle."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Train Depot, Presque Isle, ca. 1955

"… Description The north bound Bangor and Aroostook diesel engine #41 stopped at the Presque Isle Depot."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891

"… the big trout, Mill Site, 1891 Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Description Camp on the "Mill Site" on a…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Transportation

"… to the development and growth of Presque Isle and Aroostook County. At first, the only way into the area was to travel through New Brunswick via…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"After the Civil War, Aroostook County, in general, and Presque Isle, in particular, found economic prosperity in the starch industry."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Maine Special potato bag, Presque Isle, c. 1950

"1950 Contributed by Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Description 25 pound potato bag, Produce Distributors, Inc."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Electric generator delivery, Presque Isle, 1959

"The Aroostook Trust Company building in the background is at the corner of Main Street and Chapman Road, Presque Isle."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Free Baptist Church, Presque Isle, 1895

"source: "Art Work of Aroostook County, Maine," v. 8, W. H. Parish Publishing Co., Chicago, 1895. View additional information about this item on the…"

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

"… was the first foreign made car to be sold in Aroostook County. Citroens came from France so they had to be shipped overseas."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"“Aroostook" is a mangled version of Wolastuq, the original name for the St. John River. The families would disperse broadly through the late summer…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 11 of 13

"… with Barrel Grapple, Littleton, 1945Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum The two trucks pictured here are restorations of 1940s potato barrel…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"1935Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Edwena, my grandmother, told me about working in the Central Aroostook County potato fields."

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

"SOURCES Richard W. Judd” AROOSTOOK A Century of Logging in Northen Maine” UNIVERSIY OF MAINE PRESS, 1989 Charles Morrow Wilson “Aroostook: Our Last…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Canadian and Pacific Railroad

"… Isle Historical Society X X In 1870, Aroostook County had no railways. The primary transportation was by horse and wagon."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"1935Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum One-row diggers were still used even after tractors were introduced."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Sears and Roebuck Company Building

"Sears moved to the Aroostook Centre Mall in 1993. The building that was Sears and Roebuck is no longer there today."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato import protest, Presque Isle, 1982

"… to imported Canadian potatoes, a group of Aroostook County potato farmers filled the parking lot of the Presque Isle Agricultural Center on…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"… blocks eventually were used to cool Bangor and Aroostook Railroad refrigerator cars for shipping potatoes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"1950Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Potato picker's tickets, ca. 1910Presque Isle Historical Society Up until the 1970s when farms…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Aroostook Valley Railroad and Maine Public Service Company building, Presque Isle, 1921Presque Isle Historical Society Gould’s original plan was to…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"Families from the northern part of Aroostook from the Fort Kent, Madawaska, and Van Buren areas would come to Presque Isle to work in various…"

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

"Victor potato digger, Littleton, c. 1920Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Two horses were necessary to pull these early potato diggers."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Oak Hotel

"Eleven years later, in 1986, the Aroostook County Federal Savings and Loan Association purchased the land and built their own building on the site."