Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… Island, now Bar Island, where they raised sheep and spun and wove their own wool. This was the family that owned the largest summer hotel in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… clothing at home, beginning with raising the sheep and then weaving the wool. They caught cod from small boats and salted it."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Shipbuilding had started, of course, with the first settlers, who needed to get to the fishing grounds and to trade. The first island ship we know of…"

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

"Theo & Etta Buswell with sheep, Swan's Island, ca. 1935Swan's Island Historical Society Once the timbering diminished and the waters around Swan’s…"

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

"… indicate the frequent town recordings of sheep, hog and cattle markings, demonstrating that animal raising for sale and consumption was an…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"

Frye Island Historical Society

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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3

"… tending sheep as there were as many as 6000 sheep on Long Island a the time of the Civil War; and fishing as there were dozens of weirs (pronounced…"

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"They brought 20 sheep with them from Massachusetts onto the island and then they made a shelter. In the fall Joseph went back home."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… as there used to be (just think of all those "sheep islands" up and down the coast). 4H groups are still strong in surrounding communities, and…"