Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… Distance Telephone, Telegraphic Office, Saddle Horses, [and] Excellent Livery” (Wood 73). The Inn offered the public performances of a small…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… dining room and traveler's rooms, it had a large horse stable. It was lost to fire in 1903, but part of the building was salvaged and relocated."

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"They came by horse and returned by canoe. Soon, people from Benedicta started coming to worship the Catholic religion in Lincoln."

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…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… than attending the wounded riders and their horse, the passengers simply smashed the keg of rum, which they saw as the root cause."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"… to turn out and help put its members in a horse pond. We have no objections." Alcoholometer set by Charles Gerletti of Glasgow, made…"

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

"… by home delivery began to take place, first by horse and buggy, later by delivery truck. These businesses proliferated during the '40s and '50s…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… heading to the railroad station, often using horse-drawn buggies for transportation. Liveries were common in the age of the railroad, and a large…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Foxes were fed fish and horse meat. When it was time for the foxes to be skinned, they were skinned in the late fall."

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…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… in the township." Peru Center Ferry A horse and wagon are docking at the Peru Center Ferry landinfPeru Historical Society The important feat…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… in our town is the constant stir up by the horse cars. For the past months we have had the full benefit of the tearing down of brick and plastering…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… paid $6 a week, which included the board for his horse. It seems that he was principal for less than a year, for one Elias Upton was subsequently…"

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

"Horses were cared for in the taverns' stables. The Buxton enterprises included an early post office, cooperage, and blacksmith shop. Samuel B."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… “trotting park.” This oval was created to keep horse races off of Main St. (More About Franklin County Agricultural Fair) U.S."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… up the Kennebec River and over land by foot or horse through unsettled areas following the trails of early trappers or Indians."

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

"Agricultural items got to market by a horse drawn tote wagon. There were few paying jobs and that meant little money available for families to…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Fred Titcomb's horses, load of hay, Falmouth Corner, early 1900sNorth Yarmouth Historical Society Request from Elizabeth B."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… cross on piles – some 800 feet, and the old Iron Horse, with his freight of timber and piles, goes over it a distance of about 600 feet."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… long after, the town was seeing the “mechanical horse” on the streets. A number of dealerships were advertising their “exceptional machines” by…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… edge, few houses, the only roads being foot and horse paths. Travel was by boat. By 1790 North Lubec, with a population of 245, was far more…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… traveled to his customers’ sites by cart and horse. The trip from Old Town to Fort Kent would take five weeks round trip."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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