Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"… named after John R Braden, a famous local harness horse owned by the Mooseleuk Club. There was a line of more than two hundred people who waited…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"In the horse-drawn digger days of the early 1900s a potato picker could earn 2 or 3 cents for each full barrel."

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…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… led to the production of harnesses and tack for horses. Prison Brooms to the Train Depot, Thomaston, 1915Thomaston Historical Society A broom…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"… real estate ad said: “Ideal location to pasture a horse, raise your children or just enjoy living in the solitude of a country home."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… were cleared from the paths to allow passage for horses. As the settlements grew, attention was given to roads and ferries."

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"… a pork chop for ten cents." Smith owned a team of horses, most likely to transport his products. The store ran in the period of Swan's Island…"

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… cars people would often get around by walking, by horse, or by the water. These ways allowed people to come through the town of Lincoln."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel

"… hotel was finished, they built stables for the horses so the horses wouldn’t have to stay in the cold."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Horses pulled the stage over roads that are closed today. Bowery Corner, an old intersection connecting various roads in the Severy Hill area, put up…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"Lenny Breau Hal Lone Pine on horse, ca. 1945Maine Historical Society The Breau family lived on a farm in Auburn where they kept two horses and…"

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… entries record the many times she fell from her horse, sometimes seriously injuring herself in her efforts to reach a patient in distress."

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… Library The machine was built to be hauled by a horse team or truck. The Tiger had a team of forty people who pumped water into the hose and onto…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"A horse was trapped in the stable but later rescued. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library Half of the Cotton Mill roof was…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"A ticket was only $6.00! Horse-drawn wagons were often lined up all the way from the river to the Main Road waiting their turn to off- or on-load…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Funeral

"… followed by the General’s coffin, his favorite horse with Knox’s boots reversed in the stirrups, and a large group of mourning relatives, servants…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… this long reign, Bass Park has seen it all: horse and car racing on its half-mile track, polo, baseball, circuses, soccer, carnivals, tractor…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… city water (1885), electric lights (1886), the horse-drawn and then electric street railway (1888, 1892)."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Once cut, horses and oxen, shod in bog shoes, hauled the harvested hay to staddles. To increase acreage yields, large-scale diking was undertaken."

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Lubec Landmarks

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"Mt. Zircon Reservoir The workmen and horses, hired by local contractor, James M. McGregor, cleared the “basin” for the Mt. Zircon Reservoir."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"Part 1, to page 29 Horse racing, plans of gates, 1866 Democratic Convention, politicians   Part 2, pages 30-47 Profiles of political figures…"