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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… the Vineyard, and in addition to being survival farmers, the Stewarts were also talented furniture makers and “joiners” [carpenters]."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… was exported a year! Seasonal workers, such as farmers, depended on this ice industry because if they got lots of ice that winter, then the men…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"… was exported a year! Seasonal workers, such as farmers, depended on this ice industry because if they got lots of ice that winter, then the men…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"In the winter farmers would come with their teams and sign on to haul ice. During the Depression, when times were real bad, I can remember all the…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"… swinging bridge was originally built for a local farmer to make his distance onto the island shorter for him to have to walk."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Farmers and lumbermen were performing soldiers’ duties. Under these difficult circumstances, many families left the coast” and other New England…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"A successful merchant, he was also a farmer, owner of trading vessels and a town justice. The King home, built across from the marsh, was originally…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"Farmers supported diking, because it resulted in increased acreage and thus increased salt hay yield."

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

"Even as roads began to improve in the 1930s, farmers would keep a horse and wagon as backup. Aviation fever came to Scarborough in 1926 when Chester…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… and village merchants sold goods to the rural farmers. Access to ship transportation in Yarmouth was essential, as trains hadn’t yet come to the…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… 19th century, Phebe’s brothers were fishermen and farmers. Her brother Abraham became the proprietor of a successful shipyard in Ellsworth."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"During those years he engaged the most well-to-do farmer of the area, Waldo Pettengill of Rumford Center, as his business agent to procure the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Harlow Hill was named for Thomas Harlow, a farmer and the appointed keeper of the village pound for some time. Judge Charles W."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"… Waterville Morning Sentinel, and the Maine Farmer. In 1925, Gannett would consolidate the Portland newspaper market with the purchase of the…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"While Yankee farmers were quite willing to support laws to regulate drinking by immigrants and big city folks, they were against the regulation of…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… were elderly people that couldn’t leave or farmers that wouldn’t leave. Few kids were left and the middle-age population was very scarce."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… 25th 1853 to John Stevens, who was a tanner and a farmer, and his wife, Harriet Leslie French. His attendance at the Maine Normal School lasted…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"The numbers of farmers had decreased from 201 to 177 and the number of sailors from 112 to 52. But there were 115 miners in town, not counting the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"Some farmers hung on and there were at least five commercial dairies in town before the Second World War."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… saw mill which was owned and run by many of the farmers in the neighborhood, each running a certain length of time each season, or until a…"

Acadian Archives

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… the Presumptuous Opera Company Walter Nowick--farmer, Juilliard-trained pianist, Zen teacher, son of Russian immigrants, witness to the aftermath…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… the bounty of land out West drew away many Maine farmers, and the Civil War (1860-1864) marked an end to the age of East coast shipping and…"