Maine Memory Network

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

"There was great excitement that July when the rails of the Biddeford and Saco Railroad Company were finally connected to those of the Portland…"

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

"However, diking and development of roads and rail lines across the marsh negatively impacted the marsh, destroying soils and natural vegetation."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"Two partially submerged rail cars and an unidentified building were just a couple of the many damages caused by the Bangor Flood of 1902.Bangor…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… speed highways cut through the city but doomed rail transportation. City officials struggled with ways to revitalize its city core along the banks…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"If the workers had to use the bathroom, they would put barrels around themselves. They would have to go quickly because the digger man would start…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Train Station, Presque Isle, ca. 1908

"… Description Photograph shows railroad workers and clerks in a Bangor and Aroostook Railroad station."

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

"Workers make sure the potatoes and rocks are separated. A conveyors dumps the potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more…"

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

"… from the rows by hand, although there were some workers with hand diggers who could keep up with the early mechanical diggers."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"Del retired in March 2005. He was a skilled worker and loved his job. He stills likes forestry and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood."

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

"… a break to the potato pickers and other field workers. Worn lags would have to be replaced with new ones."

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"Workers produced building stones, paving stones and statuary and monuments. The paving stones, 6x8 inches, sold for 20 cents apiece and were shipped…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"Workers there would unload the full barrels and put the empty barrels (empties) back onto the truck."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… for getting them [potatoes] to market.” While workers completed the road that linked Presque Isle to Houlton and then to the southern parts of the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"Quarry rails from the quarry dock to the quarry, Swan's Island, ca. 1900Swan's Island Historical Society The pinkish buff granite from it was medium…"

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

"He was also physically fit and was a very hard worker. Shep married a woman named Margarite Littlefield."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for months clearing acres of heavily forested land to finally send the logs down the Penobscot River…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… and coal to its steam plant, but soon switched to rail. Soon, reliable transportation attracted other industries such as oilcloth factories, iron…"

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

"Quarry rails, Swan's Island, ca. 1900Swan's Island Historical Society These stones were known as the "New York" or "Philadelphia" sized paving…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"… that he had attended the dedication via special rail car, returning to Portland and then to his New York City apartment."

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

"… during shipment (by ship, and after 1852, by rail) in crates produced in the woodworking shops both at the quarry sites and at the granite works in…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"… his mill operations to Strong, the junction of rail service north to Kingfield, west to Phillips, and south to Farmington."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"He was in charge of the task of building a rail line from Duluth, Minnesota to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"He was a very hard worker, demanding of himself and others, yet was concerned for the welfare of others, such as in adequate housing and education."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… on the right looks over the temporary parapet (railing) of the bridge down onto the Lubec waterfront, still an active herring/sardine economy…"