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Lincoln, Maine - Horse and Wagon, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"Horse and Wagon, Lincoln, ca. 1900 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description Two men with a horse and wagon in Lincoln."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"Farmers would keep a horse and wagon for backup in case roads were impassable for an automobile. Auto racing began soon after the construction of the…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"X Principal Causes of Spontaneous Combustion Journal of Literature, Science, Morals and Religion, Bangor June 29, 1837 Collections of Maine…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"Aviation fever came to Scarborough in 1926 when Chester Jordan and Phillips Payson purchased land for an airport off Manson Libby Road."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Canadian and Pacific Railroad

"The primary transportation was by horse and wagon. Houlton and Fort Fairfield were the first to get rail service."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"The public also has opportunities to ride in wagons, carriages, and sleighs during the nonprofit organization’s fund raisers, simulating what…"

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… latest footwear, the vegetable truck, the dairy wagon and even the local merchant who arrived in a large panel truck, laden with dresses and other…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Heaters were essential for four wheeled wagons and carriages whose wheels could not easily make perpendicular turns."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"During the winter months when there was snow, sleigh cars replaced the horse cars. Some time after Portland became electrified in the 1880s, the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… 1, and was funded by tolls of eight cents for a horse and twenty-five cents for a stagecoach. Objecting to the toll, stagecoach operator Josiah…"

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."

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

"… and was funded by toll rates, eight cents for a horse and twenty-five cents for a stagecoach. Objecting to the twenty-five cent tariff to cross the…"

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

"Mr. Small drove the team of two horses with the reins going out through a small opening. Fall and spring it traveled on wheels and in the winter on…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Oak Hill station was a busy shipping point for horses and livestock for the Union Army.(6) Scarboro Beach Railroad Station, 1909Scarborough…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon. You wanted solid, clean ice, you know, without snow..” Ice Table frozen in…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"1890Hubbard Free Library The wagon-like carriers were called "galamanders," and were usually pulled by 8 to 10 teams of horses or oxen."

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… cotton was brought up to the mill by horse and wagon. When the cotton was shipped out, they were brought to other places by railroad."

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

"… up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon. You wanted solid, clean ice, you know, without snow."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"This was the most famous berrying place around and bushels of berries were harvested there each summer."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"When Albert was in high school, he worked at the JJ Newberry Company as a stock boy and cleaner. He also worked for his father by cutting down trees…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"This led to the production of harnesses and tack for horses. Prison Brooms to the Train Depot, Thomaston, 1915Thomaston Historical Society A…"