Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Train Crossing the Aroostook River Bridge, Presque Isle, c. 1990

"… Bangor and Aroostook Railroad engine 82, a GP-38, hauling a freight train over the Aroostook River Bridge."

Presque Isle: The Star City - King Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1920

"The sprayer is hauled by two horses, which means that the pump was probably powered by the sprayer wheels.The potato plants appear to be in blossom…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

"That year the Bangor and Aroostook hauled 195,000 passengers. In 1920, business peaked when the railroad carried 684,000 passengers."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"Sometimes the trains used two engines to haul a big load of wood. Coal was also hauled into Franklin County by train."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… would come with their teams and sign on to haul ice. During the Depression, when times were real bad, I can remember all the people coming to ask…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… would come with their teams and sign on to haul ice. During the Depression, when times were real bad, I can remember all the people coming to ask…"

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

"As weather permits, traps are hauled up one to five days later. Originally, hauling was done by hand using a gaff (a stick with a hooked end) to hook…"

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… Free Library The machine was built to be hauled by a horse team or truck. The Tiger had a team of forty people who pumped water into the hose and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"I then hauled my load up to the road that leads to Sewall Ayers. There I was met by Ayers with 2 yoke of steers and by Whitman with 2 yoke more, they…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"Sanger Ann Fales Sanger Ruth Mayo Hauling wood Clearing land for orchard, wheat Hampden House Bar Bowling alleys Jes Crosman Sands Circus & Caravan…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865

"… crooks" in the woods, cut them and found someone hauling a load of wood to carry the cedar out of the woods for him."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… and put its mangled pieces in a dumpster to be hauled off in a matter of a few hours. Continually evolving modern building techniques and materials…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Using a long saw, picks, and horses as hauling devices to pull the ice off the river. Once the ice was off the river, it would be pulled by horse to…"

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"Both boats were bought by the government, hauled into the Casco Bay, and sank in the harbor as protection of enemy subs."

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

"A volunteer life-saving crew from Cape Elizabeth hauled a heavy surfboat more than nine miles over muddy roads to the eastern side of Prouts Neck."

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

"… teams are to be hired as can be, and employed in hauling kiln-wood to convenient places near the kilns so as to incumber as little mowing ground as…"

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

"A belt ran from the engine pulley to a hauling winch; and as long as the engine was running, the winch turned and lobster traps could be hauled…"

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

"Even as late as the 1950s farmers hauled potatoes to starch factories. Former potato farmer Larry Park talks about starch factories in Presque Isle."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"… spars and rigging and turned into barges for hauling coal and lumber. The Reine Marie StewartThomaston Historical Society The decline of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Once cut, horses and oxen, shod in bog shoes, hauled the harvested hay to staddles. To increase acreage yields, large-scale diking was undertaken."

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

"Five men discussing the lobster haul of the day, Swan's Island, 1950Swan's Island Historical Society A successful trap limit was enforced in 1984…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"In 1905, Lewis Whitten held the record for hauling the largest load (11 tons) of birch logs six miles to the mill with one pair of horses."

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… as well as fifteen cords of hard wood (cut and hauled), and an annual salary of two hundred dollars in cash."

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… on Cunningham Ridge using timbers that Fred hauled down from Newport. The mill came with a six-cylinder Plymouth engine and they used the mill to…"