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

"… Agricultural Museum Two horses were necessary to pull these early potato diggers. The mechanical parts of the digger were powered by the wheels…"

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

"Tractors were soon pulling two-row diggers so that by the late 1940s there were few one-row diggers in use."

Maine and the Civil War - Legendary Participation

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"… still an agricultural fair with livestock, horse pulling, tractor pulling, an exhibition hall for crafts and food goods."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Once the ice was off the river, it would be pulled by horse to the nearest ice house. There the ice blocks would run down a ramp, to be set by tons…"

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

"… were called "galamanders," and were usually pulled by 8 to 10 teams of horses or oxen. Granite the from the Stinchfield and Longfellow quarries on…"

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

"If you were going down a rough road, you could pull a lever inside the car which raised the whole car body higher off the ground."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"This made the digger easier for the horses to pull. Harvesting Potatoes, Presque Isle, 1940Presque Isle Historical Society The photograph on…"

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

"His neighbors farmed with horses that would pull big drags with rocks piled on it. The drag would make flat paths. That looked like little roads."

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

"A lobsterman is able to pull many more traps in a day using the latter method. Once on deck, the trap is emptied."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… and featured livestock judging, horse and oxen pulling, and an assortment of carnival rides and games."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"… the body and the other a small "two-bear trailer" pulled behind a car. Where this mini-menagerie arrived from I never found out, but as it was…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 12 of 13

"… would clamp onto a barrel with this tool and pull the barrel onto the body of the truck. He was assisted by a man walking beside the truck."

Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"With the economy so good Robert Low Jr. pulled $21 to make a school for the children living there in the small town of Guilford."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"Then the operator would pull the left handle. When the conversation was finished, the handle, when pulled down, would make a print on the back of the…"

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Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… day of October 12th, 1937, the Brady gang car pulled up to the Dakin Sporting Goods Company store. James Dalhover exited the car and sauntered in."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"… A native of Ireland, Civil War veteran Murphy was pulled from jail by Capt. Studivant having told the latter, "I have been a run-seller and a…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"We would just pull up and double park, haul the ice around back. You couldn’t do that today!” “If people wanted ice they would put this card in the…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"boat pulling logs across Moosehead Lake X Logging started with the contractor- he selected the spot where wood was to be cut, and later dumped in…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Marion Sanborn

"… it scared the horses and they started trying to pull it on its side. Well it scared me to death but it was fine, my grandfather got it to stop."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"Once the ship pulled into port in East Thomaston, Maine, Kelleran took Atticus to his farm on Brooklyn Heights, where the fugitive reportedly worked…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… so, it was better than working your horses to pull out the logs, because the horses would wear out fast."