Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… strategy that included diverse crop and livestock production, nonfarm work, and nontraditional products and crafts."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… western Maine will notice remnants of the past: stone walls that once enclosed open fields, lilac-shrouded cellar holes that once housed thriving…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"He returned to Hartford to build a stone wall 100 rods long in eight weeks for $100. With his earnings he bought a pair of oxen for $50 and sold them…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… tubs and other machinery with gravel and lighter stones. Guilford Woolen Mills, ca. 1920Guilford Historical Society New Addition to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… Society During the winter of 1780, the stones for the first mill were brought from Winthrop over the ice and snow."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The gypsum and grinding stones to supply the mills were among the goods smuggled into the country from Nova Scotia."

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

"This stretch of Route 9 was marked with stone pillars and planted out with trees. Since the Civil War, many towns throughout New England had erected…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… among them is the Italianate Customs House, a stone structure begun in 1852 near the site of the King home, and completed in 1858."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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